Are you doing Veganuary? Good for you! A few suggestions. On a vegan diet, it’s really important to make sure that you eat a balance of 50% vegetables and fruit, …
Edible Campus Christmas Vegetables
By Isabelle Low Whether your centrepiece is a turkey (hopefully organic and free range) or like me a stuffed portobello mushroom, there needs to be a lot of traditional vegetables …
How to Use all those Potatoes
By Isabelle Low Lots of potatoes being lifted this month in our Edible Campus gardens. To keep them fresh for as long as possible, clean off as much soil as …
Climate Change and Water
Climate change has manifest itself in many ways around the world, from record summer extreme temperatures, to the melting of the polar icecaps and glaciers, leading to sea level rises, …
Has the World enough resources to sustain the current population growth?
Can World agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture and forestry sustain burgeoning populations without habitat destruction, deforestation or species/biodiversity loss? In the late 18th century Thomas Malthus wrote ‘The power of the population …
The importance of Biodiversity. Mankind (single species) versus nature (biomes, ecosystems, biodiversity, communities and populations of multiple species); is it a winner-takes-all contest or can we live in sustainable harmony?
Background The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio led to three Conventions a year later on Climate Change, Biological Diversity and Desertification Prevention (UN). Biodiversity can be defined as the variety …
EVENT: Grow Wild on Earth Day: Embrace Your Flower Power!
A warm welcome to everyone!:) As a means to celebrate Earth day, we are hosting an afternoon embracing our native Scottish wildlife, in association with Grow Wild. Grow Wild’s mission …
Paw print, your pet’s carbon footprint.
Pets have co-evolved with mankind for thousands of years. Domestic dogs were thought to have evolved from domesticated grey wolves in the Middle East around 15 000 years ago. Archaeological …
Seed Sowing Galore!
The gardens are beginning to buzz as they slowly are bursting with new life. Signs of springs such as frog spawn, bumble bees and yellow daffodils is a sure sign …
Kale Chips! recipe
It’s February and the community gardens still have food in them, including Brassicas, the cabbage family plants. Kale, cabbage, and brussels sprouts are still green and seem to shrug off the …
Apple: Cambusnethan Pippin
The Guardbridge Community garden is full of surprises! Not least an apple tree with an actual name label still attached. The Cambusnethan Pippin apple tree was struggling along, despite it’s …
Transition Thank You Meal
Join Transition for our annual Thank You Meal. If you have been a volunteer, a participant in the past or would like to join us in the future, please come …
