Glasgow Food Policy Partnership

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Big news for growers, producers, retailers and those working in public procurement interested in organics - the launch of the Scottish Government Organic Action Plan, which includes funding of £200k in year 1. foodanddrink.scot/helping-busi...

The Full of Beans cultural cuisines zine, created in collaboration with attendees of our workshops last summer, is now available! Visit our website to view it in full goodfoodforall.co.uk/learnings-an...

After running the Full of Beans campaign to promote beans in Glasgow during 2024 and 2025, we are now fully behind the Food Foundation’s Bang in Some Beans campaign!

Visit buff.ly/w4gVltZ to find out more and get eating your beans!
#banginsomebeans #OnBoardWithBeans #fullofbeans

Reports and Evaluation Each year a report on the progress of the Glasgow City Food Plan will be produced.

Every year we publish a progress report on the Glasgow City Food Plan - the latest report for Year 4 is now available on our website. Let us know if you have any comments! goodfoodforall.co.uk/reports-and-...

What to grow in January? This month we have recommendations from @Glasgow Seed Library. They recommend using open pollinated seeds, which you can get from companies such as Seeds of Scotland, Real Seeds, Tamar Organics or Vital Seeds.

We'd love to see your growing pics if you decide to sow along!

Glasgow's Climate Plan Consultation - Glasgow City Council Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used.

The issues of food and climate are closely linked. Any climate plan should recognise the impact of the food system on climate, and what we can do to reduce emissions. We would encourage anyone interested to read the plan and add their views.
www.glasgow.gov.uk/cpconsultation

Resources for those in Glasgow Our food system is complex. The mission to transform our food system means addressing food poverty as well as health factors and the environmental impacts of food production. Many areas of Glasgow…

Did you know that we have compiled a list of resources on our website for all those struggling for food this winter? It will also be useful if you work in food poverty or food relief. Check it out here and let us know if there is anything you would add! goodfoodforall.co.uk/documents/re...

The First National Good Food Nation Plan The first national Good Food Nation Plan. It sets out six over-arching Outcomes; the range of targets and indicators used to gauge progress towards achieving them; and details of food-related…

We are pleased to see the publication of the national Good Food Plan by the Scottish Government, and look forward to working with our partners to help develop a local Good food Nation plan for Glasgow.

You can read the full plan here -
www.gov.scot/publications...

Apple Appeal 2025 Connecting and supporting the people and organisations of Glasgow who grow, produce and eat food

Do you have apple trees? Do you need apples for community projects? You can help a new project by Glasgow Community Food Network and The Orchard Project by filling out their survey - glasgowfood.net/apple-appeal-2025

Wishing all our partners and supporters, as well as everyone reading this, a very happy and peaceful festive season! We look forward to seeing many of you in 2026, when we will return refreshed and ready to come back to working together to achieve our goal of a truly sustainable food city.

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Have you checked out our latest newsletter for 2025 yet? It's packed with highlights from our recent gatherings and online seminars, a chance to win a £100 Locavore voucher, updates on a new nationwide beans initiative, and opportunities for funding. Follow the link below!

bit.ly/3Lab3Hv

We had another bean-filled afternoon on 25th November at our Full of Beans Networking event. We came together to hear everything that’s happened in Glasgow since the end of the official 2024 Full of Beans campaign.

#glasgowfullofbeans #beans #banginsomebeans #sustainablefood

2 weeks ago we launched the 4th edition of the Glasgow Sustainable Food Directory with Slow Food Glasgow at a fully booked event hosted in Five March. It was amazing to see so many sustainable food venues, suppliers & public attending the event! You can see the new directory here lnkd.in/gx9xDBQE

Thanks for sharing Sarah 🙂

Join us for a bean-filled afternoon to find out about bean-related activities in Glasgow and beyond.

To book a space to attend the event, please email carol.frame@glasgow.ac.uk with your name, organisation, and dietary or access requirements with ‘Full of Beans, 25th November’ in the subject line.

Couple of weeks ago we said Farewell to our Good Food Movement Co-Ordinator Thalia Groucott. Before she left we visited 3 projects in Govan - 'Dig In' community shop selling a good variety of fruit & vegetables, 'Grub Hub' catering for the community and 'Moogety Garden' run by Urban Roots Roots.

Last week our Food Economy group toured Glasgow Mushroom Co. with co-founder Hendrik 🍄

Want to learn more? Listen to “Glasgow Mushrooms: People, Process & Planet” on The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast

Growers - check out their Compost Club for free mushroom substrate: compostclub.glasgowmushroom.co

The Glasgow Sustainable Food Directory is back with another edition! Join us at Five March to celebrate 45 of Glasgow’s most sustainable restaurants, cafés, takeaways and food shops, and the businesses and communities they support and belong to.

Register here:
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🍽️ What if the meals served on campus could shape a healthier, more sustainable food future? Join us on the 11th November to explore how Glasgow’s universities and colleges are using sustainable procurement and menu design in their large-scale catering to affect real change in our food system.

Image with a blue background and the text 'Healthy, Sustainable Food in Glasgow's Universities and Colleges' '11am - 12:30pm on Tuesday 11th November, Online Webinar, Register at bit.ly/uni-food-webinar' and the logos of Glasgow Food Policy Partnership, Food for Life Soil Association, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University, and City of Glasgow College. There is a collage in the centre of the image which features the buildings of each institution, some of the food they serve, and students holding food.

🍽️ Join us on 11 Nov (11am–12:30pm) for our webinar on Healthy, Sustainable Food in Glasgow’s Universities & Colleges. Hear from UofG, GCU, and City of Glasgow College about how they’re serving up good food for people & planet.
🔗 Register: bit.ly/uni-food-webinar

Healthy sustainable food Healthy sustainable food

A better investment in life's essentials (Day 3 #CPW25) is necessary to effectively tackle poverty. This is why the work of the @glasgowfpp.bsky.social & the Glasgow City Food Plan towards a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system is so important. Read more www.gcph.co.uk/our-work/112...

six people in rain coats standing in front of a large polytunnel and smiling at the camera.

Sasha from St Pauls holding one of their chickens while someone strokes the chickens back.

A handpainted sign with blue letters that reads 'Blackhill Community Farm' 'All Welcome' with red flowers is in the bottom section of the image and over a fence you can see six people walking along a path towards two large polytunnels.

Tomatoes, which are still green, growing on a vine.

Thanks to Sasha from St Paul's Youth Forum and those who braved the drizzly weather for making our tour on Tuesday such a great event.

It was fantastic to hear about all of St Pauls' different growing projects, exchange ideas and advice between projects, and meet the chickens!

Beige background with olive green text over the top which reads 'Courtyard Pantry Enterprise #doinggoodthroughfood' 'Wester Common Unity Market' 'Saturday 18th October 10am-2pm' 'The Courtyard, 2 Wester Common Drive, Glasgow' 'Fresh Produce, Sourced Locally, Affordable Price' 'More information facebook: @courtyardpantry, instagram: @courtyardpantryglasgow' 'Supported by National Lottery Community Fund' with illustrations of tomatoes, carrots, and blueberries down the side of the image.

The Wester Common Unity Market is back on the 18th October between 10am and 2pm so get down to support a new initiative working to make fruit and veg more readily accessible for all!

Plus this month will see a Halloween theme, bread from Forn Bakery, and mushrooms from Glasgow Mushroom Co. 🎃

Text as in caption including booking link: www.glasgowfood.info/harvest-fest plus “swap yer home grown veg, workshops, local produce, arts activities, community meal, info stalls, creche”. Logos: Food and Climate Action project, Glasgow Community Food Network, The National Lottery Community Fund.

Text: "Workshops! Apple Pressing on the Velojuicer with the Orchard Project. Miso Making with the Koji Kitchen. Mushroom Workshop with the Glasgow Mushroom Company & more." Photos are of a person with light skin tone and brown short hair holding a large bucket of apples, a person with light skin tone in a commercial kitchen with a bowl of ramen on the table, a man with light skin tone and reddish brown hair and beard holding an armful of mushrooms.

Text: "What else? Free creche service during workshops, Arts and crafts, Local, small business food produce available to buy, Community harvest swap - bring your fruit and veg" Photos of a table with collage materials, a promo shot of Slow Sauce, and hand printing lino blocks on a tablecloth.

Glasgow Community Food Network is putting on a FREE, family-friendly harvest festival this Saturday!

🗓 Saturday 11th October
⏰ 11 am - 4 pm
📍 Civic House, 26 Civic St, Glasgow, G4 9RH
www.glasgowfood.info/harvest-fest

Apples are in season and abundant at this time of year. If you don't have immediate access to an apple tree, you can find plenty of apple trees on public land by using Falling Fruit - beta.fallingfruit.org/map/@55.8985...

Background image of apples growing on a tree with a white line drawing of an apple overtop. There is a black transparent border at the top and bottom with white text that reads 'October: What To Eat' 'Apples In Season in August - Nov'

Background image of garlic close up with a white line drawing of a garlic bulb on top. There are black transparent borders at the top and bottom of the image with white text that reads 'October: What To Plant' and 'Garlic Harvest May - August'

What's in season in October and what should you plant?

Garlic should be planted before the frost but in late autumn or early winter so that it can grow during a cold period that will help bulb formation.

You can harvest it from May to August, and it stores well!

Picture of 7 staff at St Pauls Youth Forum smiling and standing next to a raised bed growing plants in a wooded area. The logos for Glasgow Food Policy Partnership and St Paul's Youth Forum are in the bottom right corner and the text at the top reads 'Tour of St Paul's Youth Forum, Tuesday 7th October, 11:30-14:00, with Glasgow Food Policy Partnership' in a blue text box.

🌱🐓 Community food in action!
Join us this autumn for a visit to St Paul’s Youth Forum in Provanmill — explore their gardens, meet the chickens, and share lunch in the café.

Spots are limited — sign up this Friday via the link in our bio!

Image with white text that reads 'Public Diners Conference 2025 From idea to reality' '16th Oct 2025 Central Hall, Edinburgh' over a blue border which leaves space for three images of tables full of people in discussion and taking notes.

How can we, together, make the idea of state-supported restaurants a reality.

Whether you’re a food activist, policymaker, practitioner or citizen, come and be part of shaping the future of public diners. Find out more and sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-din...

@nourishscotland.bsky.social

NHSGGC image with blue and white lines coming out from the centre of the image and the text 'NHSGGC Healthy weight support across the life course' and the NHSGGC logo in the top left corner. There are collage pictures of people cooking and eating, and people in doctors appointments, and before and after pictures of a young girl and a man having used healthy weight support services.

Next Tuesday (23 Sept, 11:30–1), we’re hosting a webinar with NHSGGC: Healthy Weight Support Across the Life Course.

Learn about programmes from early years to adulthood -including Thrive Under 5, Weigh to Go, and breastfeeding support.

➡️ Free to join: bit.ly/healthy-weight-webinar