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5 January 20256 January 2025

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…

4 December 20244 December 2024

Help us write a modern manifesto for Tayside’s food system!

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…

25 October 202425 October 2024

Our ‘Recipes For Action’ Work receives further support from Scottish Rural Network

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…

16 April 202419 April 2024

Strengthening & Developing Community-Led Food Growing In Tayside – Recipes For Action

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…

25 March 202429 March 2024

Alyth Food for Thought

Our aim to provide support locally to low income households in Alyth/ New Alyth and reduce food waste. You can find out more via Facebook or You can find out more HERE

25 March 202430 March 2024

Arbroath Pippins Community Orchard

Historical grass roots project Arbroath Pippins have started the towns first community orchard. The pippins wanted to plant a small 7 tree orchard to mark the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, however they had a better idea… to turn Arbroath into an orchard. In honour of this historic connection between apple and Abbey, the…

25 March 202429 March 2024

Dudhope Community Garden

We are a small local mental health charity working with military veterans and ex-uniformed services personnel who are experiencing problems. Based on a dedicated site in Dudhope Park, we provide supervised and tailored therapies within a green space environment, with the aim of improving our veterans’ resilience and helping them to develop and maintain positive…

25 March 202427 March 2024

Kinnaird Allotments

Kinnaird Gardens is the oldest allotment association in Dundee and boasts spectacular south-facing views of the Tay River. You can find out more via Facebook

25 March 202427 March 2024

Comrie Community Orchard

The Orchard was planted at Cultybraggan Camp in April 2011. This was possible with funding from Awards for All, LEADER, Perth and Kinross Council and the kind donations of private individuals. The trees include 27+ varieties of apples, and plums, gages, damsons, pears, crab apples, Morello cherries, quinces, medlars, a few walnut trees and a…

22 March 202427 March 2024

North Perth Allotments Association

From time to time, everyone needs to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life and take time out in a community-centred, peaceful, and relaxing space where we can connect with the natural environment. We, North Perth Allotment Association, are developing such a haven at the Allotment and Community Garden in Tulloch. There are 14…

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