GrowGreen Blog

Delivering practical solutions through connecting people, places and nature

Seeing things differently

The planning system in Scotland can be a key ally in safeguarding the assets that many communities have yet to realise but this requires an urgent change in our thinking. There are community groups across Scotland developing locally-led food solutions, demonstrating how tackling the health, environment, poverty, and other crises through the lens of food provides…

Communities are growing our future

We are digging deeper into an insecure food future if we don’t look at this community-led movement, why it is happening, how it fits into a better food system and why we need to support, celebrate and participate in it. Organic, quietly radical, disruptive and definitely grassroots, this is not a leisure activity; it is…

Growing local for a Good Food Nation

The Scottish Government describes a ‘Good Food Nation’ as “One where people from every walk of life take pride and pleasure in, and benefit from, the food they produce, buy, cook, serve, and eat each day”. If you are growing food in your community, whether at home, an allotment, community or market garden, orchard or…

Delivering practical solutions through connecting people, places and nature.

Our work is with a movement that is quietly radical, transformational and firmly grassroots. This space serves to hold and share the ideas and energy coming from communities and partner organisations across Scotland.