Are you passionate about changing peoples travel habits and supporting healthy, low carbon living? Transition UStA is once again teaming up with Cycling Scotland and Bright Green Business to offer …
The Pandemic Elsewhere: a Dispatch from Greece
While I’m very much still in St. Andrews, I want to talk about an incredible initiative from Athens. Social media have allowed me to stay in contact with Khora, where …
The Co-operative Resurgence
It’s week 8 of lockdown, I had just sat my last university exam and after 2 months of being a slave to my desk I was finally free. I’d seen …
Online Gardening Q&A: Taking care of veg seedlings
In the third of our online gardening workshops Peter Christopher from PLANT’ Tayport Community Garden, talked about taking care of young veg seedlings. You can watch the workshop recording directly …
Interhall Environment Competition Over November 2019
Congratulations to Deans Court for winning first place over November! Here is a recap of the past month.
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 …
SOMETHING FOR HALLOWEEN
by Isabell Low, photo by Angela Saunders This summer, I grew just for fun a row of Cosmic Purple carrots at the Edible Campus garden at St Gregory’s. The raised …
Sign up Now for Food Growing Courses at the Kernel’s Urban Farm!
learn more about food production. There are regualar sessions everyweek and courses thoughout the year. Veg Growing Month by Month – Come along to this informal discussion on what you …
End of Year report 2018-19
So many great things and great people make a Transition UStA year. We have tried to bring them together in one annual report. Let us know what you think.
The Edible Campus in Winter
Isabelle Low Edible Campus volunteer As I write this (at the end of January), there is still much to pick and enjoy in the 15 Edible Campus sites around St …
Join the Tool Pool!
After several months establishing a tool base, which involved purchasing, coding, cataloguing, marking, securing, insurance and uploading to MyTurn, the tool library is now up and running! We are now …
Re-use – end of term collections for students not in halls
Students living outwith halls of residence can donate unwanted household goods to St And Re-use through St And EN. They are offering to pick up goods from your house and …