Author: Clare Cooper

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Reimagining Finance To Regenerate Our Planet: Interview with Leon Seefeld, lead architect of Bioregioning Tayside’s planned new Bioregional Financing Facility

Bioregioning Tayside’s latest and most ambitious project to date has been to begin working with Leon Seefeld of Dark Matter Labs to build Scotland’s first Bioregional Financing Facility. Read our interview with Leon below to find out more! Leon Seefeld in the Austrian Alps Tell us about yourself, Leon… I grew up on the countryside…

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The Accidental Smallholder

About us The Accidental Smallholder began, well, by accident. I suppose I am “The Accidental Smallholder”, since it’s become my business, but there are many other people who have helped over the years, and continue to help. The Accidental Smallholder website was established in 2003 as a web-log for our smallholding, with the aim of…

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WeeCAIR Medical Garden

The WeeCAIR Medicinal Garden Where do medicines come from? Many medicines that we use today come from the active ingredients found in plants that would have been used in traditional herbal remedies. The well-known painkiller aspirin comes from willow bark, and artemisinins, a malaria treatment, comes from sweet wormwood. We have built a public garden…

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Ninewells Community Garden

About The Garden Ninewells Community Garden lies in the beautiful arboretum of Ninewells Hospital, Dundee (near to Maggie’s).  Our mission is to promote physical activity and good health through community gardening; in an environment where horticulture supports wellbeing, therapy and rehabilitation. The garden includes wheelchair accessible paths, herbaceous borders, vegetable beds, a sensory garden, small…

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The MAXwell Centre (Community Gardens Network)

The Maxwell, a community centre and garden based in the heart of Dundee’s Coldside. We are committed to improving the quality of life for the local community and to combatting social exclusion, poverty, disadvantage, and discrimination. The centre provides a welcoming and empowering environment, open to everyone, to socialize, access information and learn new skills….

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Brechin Community Pantry

Our vision is to enable and support positive changes in the lives of the local community. We do this by helping those of all ages, gender and race in meeting their personal needs and encouraging them to become self-sufficient. We promote a healthier lifestyle in our personal service and build strong relationships by training volunteers…

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Brechin Community Garden

The Brechin Community Garden is a small but mighty organisation run by ten volunteers. Michael Cronin, Jess Christie, Lenny Bissett, Michael Forbes, Ruby McKay, Iain Alexander, Judi Toledo, Colin Ross, Janet and Lily. We grow many different fruit and veg and the community can come and collect it and give a small donation to us….

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