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Dec
Dec
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 […]
Category Archives: Working for Change
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 […]
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May
May
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 […]
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Apr
Apr
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, […]
By Tara Wight, PhD student working on crop sciences at the University of Edinburgh This blog was first published on Nourish Scotland’s website. The climate in Scotland is generally considered […]
Flour, Uncategorised, Working for Change
Solidarity stories: bread communities working together for equal access to good food
29
Jan
Jan
Since launching our Solidarity Bag scheme in August 2020, Scotland The Bread customers’ generosity has seen 35 16kg bags of organic, heritage, wholegrain flour made available to community bakeries to […]
06
Jan
Jan
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 & […]
04
Dec
Dec
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 […]
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Sep
Sep
The recent release of an RSPB analysis titled ‘A lost decade for nature’ showed that the UK has failed to reach 17 out of 20 UN biodiversity targets agreed on […]
Community, Working for Change
Missing links in the grain chain: the benefits of participatory plant breeding from Syria to Scotland
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Aug
Aug
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 […]