Celebrate the festive season with some great foods and green “gift” ideas that don’t trash the planet. From great tasting plant based food to skillshares, swaps and wrapping all in …
Winter Diets UK – “Spice Up Your Meals Without Heating Up the Planet”
Written by Aisling Geraghty // Nov 7th 2018 Each day that passes, you can feel the English November chill creeping in. Perhaps you have turned your heater on full power …
Avocadisaster!
Written by Aisling Geraghty October, 2018 You have been lied to. Lied to by Instagram. Lied to be health blogs. Lied to by ethical eating campaigns and pretty much every …
Bounty on the Beach
Having just joined the Transition team, I am enjoying getting to grips with the seemingly infinite diversity of strands of work that we do. Last week’s University of St Andrews …
Refreshers Week with Transition
Happy New Year 2017, and welcome back to St Andrews! Refreshers Week is just around the corner, and Transition has quite a number of events lined up. There’s something for everyone, …
Autumn Garden Update – There’s still delicious food to be had and lots to help with!
This post is written by Seth Nolan-McDonough, a first year studying Psychology, Social Anthropology, and Ancient History. Seth has been a keen garden volunteer, spoiling us with different species of …
We love compost! Do you?
A post by Andrea, one of our Campus Garden Workers, who has been working hard for Transition (3 tomato seasons now) to establish community gardens across St Andrews! We are very …
640kg harvested this season! Autumn Garden Update
If you are up for picking or digging for your food there is no need to visit the fruit & veg aisle; it is all in the great outdoors right …
Become an Orchard Surveyor and help create the National Inventory
Transition UStA is recruiting a team of volunteers to survey all the Orchards in the East of Fife as part of the National Orchard Inventory. The project aims to map …
Scottish Orchard Gathering – Help Needed
Here is a new event that is needing your help. The Scottish Orchard Gathering is looking for volunteers to help with catering and event recording. Would you be able to lend …
Transition’s Freshers’ Week Plans
Orientation Week is fast approaching, and we at Transition have a fantastic range of events planned. All our events are open to students (new and returning) as well as staff …
Eating the weeds
With all the recent activity in the gardens, there’s been a lot of preparation for the coming months – what we’re going to grow for our summer salads, autumn crops …