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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, […]
Tag Archives: biodiversity
24
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
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 […]
02
Oct
Oct
Food campaigner, writer, broadcaster and consultant Geoff Tansey joined Scotland The Bread Chairman Andrew Whitley in 2015 for a filmed guided tour of Macbiehill Agroforestry Farm in the Scottish Borders. […]
23
Sep
Sep
Scotland The Bread Chairman Andrew Whitley is the Speaker for Trill Farm’s Supper & Conversation Talk Title – My Life and Loaves Six loaves, from Seneca’s white to sourdough rye, nestle […]
Events, Soil to Slice, Working for Change
‘People’s Plant Breeding’ Event 2018, Part 2: the Grain Selection
27
Sep
Sep
On the 25th September 2018, immediately preceding our AGM, we started what might well be the first ever community science experiment of its kind: a ‘People’s Plant Breeding’ grain selection […]
Events, Working for Change
‘People’s Plant Breeding’ Grain Selection Event 2018, Part 1: the Background
27
Sep
Sep
In 2018, Scotland The Bread grew 70 tonnes of wheat and rye on the Balcaskie Estate in Fife. There are 10 ‘varieties’ which, with the exception of one modern spring wheat […]