Hello Folks, This week sees the return of kale to the veg boxes! The small and standard boxes feature green kale from The Organic Pantry, while large and extra large boxes contain kale grown by our own team at Locavore’s Left Feild farm just outside of Neilston. If you’re unsure how to use kale in…
Category: Good Food Fund
Zero Waste Events and the Good Food Fund
A massive thank you to everyone who has attended any of our zero waste events since August – we have raised an amazing £802.73 from our charity the Good Food Fund! We’ve gone on foraging walks, hosted film screenings, ran workshops and met up monthly to chat zero waste. Our aim with the programme is…
Good Food Fund Update 13/11/17
If you have been in the shop on a Wednesday lately, you will have met our volunteer Ahmad, who has been with us since May. Ahmad has been our first participant in our ‘community learning placement’ and he has helped us shape the project. This is what Ahmad says about the placement: “I’m Ahmad, I’m…
Good Food Fund Update 19/07/17
From mid June until mid August we are running a support campaign for the Glasgow Night Shelter at our shop. The Glasgow Night Shelter is an almost entirely volunteer run organisation that offers a safe place to sleep and a hot meal to destitute refugees. Every night of the year it opens its doors to…
Good Food Fund News – May 2017
As you may well know one of our initiatives is the Good Food Fund, a fund supported solely by your donations. We use this money to buy fresh organic vegetables for people who are living in food poverty in the local area. We buy these items at cost price and pass them on without making…