A Pebble Trust grant enabled Sophie Yeo of Inkcap Journal to commission nature and conservation stories of depth and quality, all with a Scottish focus and covering everything from ancient island crops and sheep to wolves, deer stalking and Climavore diets.
Read MoreKyle of Lochalsh Community Trust received funding from The Pebble Trust for their Garden on the Plock project. Here they tell us how they turned part of the Plock of Kyle community parkland into an edible garden.
Read MoreCereals and bread are central to the majority of diets across the western world. Until recently, both cereals and bread have been curiously absent from conversations and strategies about local and ecologically grown food. What is needed to enable this to happen?
Read MoreOur Seas is a growing coalition of 128 coastal businesses, fishermen’s organisations, community groups, fisheries trusts and eNGOs, campaigning for an urgent overhaul in the way Scotland’s inshore fisheries are managed.
Read MoreFrom the deadly heatwaves in Canada to devastating deluges hitting northern Europe, from raging forest fires in Siberia to record-breaking rainfall in China. It has been plain to see that nobody and nowhere is immune to the changing climate.
Read MoreCovid has highlighted how vulnerable we are to global shocks owing to our dependency on remote resources and undemocratic corporations, long supply chains and a more-or-less regulated free market economy to supply us with what we need to live.
Read MoreIn this podcast from Highland Good Food Conversation, Emma Whitham chats to six people from across the Highlands to find out their food story – both before and during the Covid-19 crisis. How have their shopping habits changed?
Read MoreIn times of crisis, the importance of community groups is highlighted, and while the coronavirus pandemic has had a seismic impact on each and every individual, the strength of the community has shone through.
Read MoreThere have been many positives in the Covid 19 crisis. Groups and individuals across the island very quickly came together to organise all sorts of help to each other and in particular the shielding and the vulnerable amongst the population.
Read MoreCOVID-19, along with Brexit and climate change underline the urgent need for a fair food system – fair for people, planet and producer. Economic hardship and food shortage are likely to get much worse before they get better.
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