01
Sep
Sep
(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 […]
Community, Working for Change
Missing links in the grain chain: the benefits of participatory plant breeding from Syria to Scotland
14
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 […]
04
Aug
Aug
We have launched the Solidarity Bag: a 16 or 8 kg bag of flour paid for by you and delivered to the brilliant community bakeries working across Scotland to keep their […]
31
Jul
Jul
Scotland The Bread’s Flour to the People Project Coordinator Lyndsay Cochrane introduces our Innovate UK Covid-19 rapid response funded project. Loaves disappeared first. Then flour. Empty shelves are a stark […]
Our recent experiences during the pandemic have demonstrated how important local food chains are to resilience and wellbeing. There’s a huge opportunity for Scotland to take the lead in this […]
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14
Jun
Jun
Bread for Good Community Benefit Society Annual General Meeting Sunday June 14th, 2020 at 10.30 am (online) Writing about the previous financial year to present to an Annual General Meeting […]
Events, Working for Change
Baking in the (Covid) Community. Part Three: Responding to Demand for Local Bread
05
Jun
Jun
In mid-April, Baking in the Community participants gathered virtually to find out how the organisations involved were coping with the restrictions placed on us all during lockdown. At a time […]
23
May
May
Many thanks to supporter Nuria Cabellos González for sharing her baking-related philosophy from lockdown in Spain. She explained: ‘My post this week has been inspired by the maypole dances, as […]
Events, Working for Change
Baking in the (Covid) Community. Part Two: Building a Customer Base in Unusual Times
15
May
May
In mid-April, Baking in the Community participants gathered virtually to find out how the organisations involved were coping with the restrictions placed on us all during lockdown. At a time […]