Last month we received news from the Scottish Rural Network confirming that they will support us for a fourth time to pilot Hyper-Local Food Plans in Tayside. This project builds on our work on kickstarting the conversation around ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis in 2023, on strengthening and developing Community-Led Food Growing in Tayside…
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Bioregioning Tayside is proud to welcome poet Jim Mackintosh as their Makar. The contemporary Bioregioning movement has strong connections to this ‘vital truth’ through the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, who played a pivotal role in the development and articulation of Bioregioning in the 1970’s and 1980’s through his promotion of a deep ecological…
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We’ve just published three new StoryMaps about our projects. The River Ericht Catchment Restoration Initiative (RECRI) StoryMap shares the work we have been doing on baselining the human and biotic communities of this important sub catchment in the River Tay system – in preparation for the RECRI partnership’s planned catchment-wide regeneration initiative. Mapping Community-Led Growing…
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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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With others, we are working to create a local food culture in Tayside, one which recognises the importance of eating produce grown in our communities in ways which are mindful of both people and the planet. We know that it can be hard to get access to fresh, healthy fruit and vegetables and so we…
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Over the winter of 2023/24, we embarked on the first stage of of our work investigating how community-led food growing can be strengthened and developed in Tayside. Empowering this very important part of Tayside’s food system was one of the many recommendations made at the conference ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis’, which took place…
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This project, which has resulted in a set of new ‘recipes for action’, investigated how community-led food growing can be strengthened and developed in Tayside. Empowering this very important part of Tayside’s food system was one of the many recommendations made at the conference ‘Feeding Tayside Through The Climate Crisis’, which took place in Dundee…
View MoreAbout 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…
View MoreThe 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…
View MoreAbout 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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