Category: News

  • Our Changing Attitude To Food Growing

    by Trish Robertson, Chair of Highland Council Climate Change Workshop Group During times of stress, we often turn to food for comfort and security. We bond together over meals…

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  • Online Markets: A Timely Solution to Improve our Food Systems

    by Josie Fraser, Researcher & Writer for the Highland Good Food Partnership More people are looking to local producers for their weekly shop as awareness of environmental issues and…

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  • How Do We Eat, As Humans Change Climates?

    by Heather Fulton, CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones How do we eat, as humans change climates? This question is at the centre of long-term project CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones, led…

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  • The Ethical Dairy

    Adapting Conventional Farming for a Better Future by Josie Fraser, Researcher & Writer for the Highland Good Food Partnership Vegan diets are becoming more popular as concerns for the…

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  • What’s Your Food Story?

    Add your food story to our interactive map HERE By Andrew Stark, Scottish Food Coalition The Scottish Food Coalition is a wide-ranging coalition of 38 organisations, who since 2015…

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  • Flour to the People

    By Lyndsay Cochrane, Project Coordinator, Flour to the People Loaves disappeared first. Then flour. Empty shelves are a stark motif of the Covid-19 crisis. Overnight, lockdown caused a quadrupling…

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  • Ancient Futures for Highland Hills: Reinventing the Shielings

    By Col Gordon (Follow Col’s work on Instagram HERE) The Highland uplands are likely to face a number of challenges over the coming years. Subsidies are likely to start…

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  • How Did The Highland Good Food Partnership Start?

    (by Emma Whitham, Highland Good Food Partnership Project Manager) Martin Sherring, from Transition Black Isle, and I started talking over a year ago about various different solutions to increase…

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  • A Community Food Perspective: The Rise Of The Community Fridge

    MOO Food is a small, local organisation that 3 years ago set up a community fridge, orchard and 25 vegetable growing boxes in our Highland village. I have worked…

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  • How Can we Make Local Food Mainstream?

    That was the question we asked ourselves in Transition Black Isle about 18 months ago. It was the group’s 10th anniversary and we were thinking about our successes during…

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