Category Archives: Community

Arise! Songs and Stories for the Bread Revolution

On the 26rd October, The Breadagogues – Marie Louise Cochrane, STB Hon Chair Andrew Whitley and Suzanne Houston – premiered their work-in-progress Arise! Songs and Stories for the Bread Revolution […]

The True Cost of Better Bread

By Andrew Whitley, co-founder and honorary chair of Scotland The Bread  In the autumn of 2017, Balcaskie Farms sowed five varieties of Scotland The Bread winter wheat and rye on some […]

Real Bread Week – Real Bread Buddies Day – Baking Timeline

Real Bread Buddies Day activities can be anything from a pizza-making session, to teaching children how to make flatbreads, to a breadmaking event like those held at Summerhill Community Centre. […]

Flour to the People: a look back at the project

Image from Summerhill Community Centre Report by Project Coordinator Lyndsay Cochrane The ‘Flour to the People’ project aimed to work alongside community food hubs and bakers to make Scotland The […]

Scotland The Bread is Five!

Today marks five years since the formal incorporation of Bread for Good Community Benefit Society – better known by our trading name Scotland The Bread. This innovative not-for-profit social business, […]

Real Bread Week 2021: Celebrating Community in Baking

We approached Real Bread Week 2021 (20 – 28th February) as an opportunity to show our support to community bakeries and bakers, and some of the artisan bakeries in our […]

Rediscovering wheat diversity for the public good

This essay originally took the form of a lecture given by Scotland The Bread Chairman Andrew Whitley as part of the series ‘What’s for Dinner? The future of Food & […]

Flour to the People: the project so far, and looking to the future

The past two months have been filled with enthusiastic conversations, sourdough success stories and the sharing of many baking tips during our Flour to the People events with community food […]

Sourdough September 2020

(Photo: Wee Boulangerie’s ‘Flour of Scotland’ loaf for a previous Sourdough September) The Real Bread Campaign’s 8th annual, international celebration of the oldest way of leavening a loaf is underway. Three […]

Missing links in the grain chain: the benefits of participatory plant breeding from Syria to Scotland

A crop breeder visits a field in which a new variety of tef, a staple cereal crop, is being grown by a local farmer in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia

Photo: A crop breeder visits a field in which a new variety of tef, a staple cereal crop, is being grown by a local farmer in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia [Tara […]