Students working towards Sustainable Food

At the University of Edinburgh there is a group of creative volunteers passionate about fair, sustainable, nourishing food. Over the past few years they been working towards implementing changes to the availability of good food at their University.

  • Celebrate World Food Day in Edinburgh

    It’s harvest time and Edinburgh is celebrating and learning with a whole host of activities at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall in Leith, 16 October. Food, music, talks, [...]

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  • Ain’t no party like a Veg Bag party…

    With over 600 bags sold,100s of recipes shared, Whitmuir farm visited and many a belly happily filled with seasonal local veg, it’s time to celebrate the successes of the Veg [...]

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  • Get some growing skills

    Introduction to Growing Your Own Veg with the Allotment and Permaculture Society 9th  March | Kings Building Allotment | 12-2pm Spring is coming and veg needs to be grown. Not [...]

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The Sustainable Food enterprise is currently:

Selling Local, Organic Veg Bags on Campus

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The Hearty Squirrel Food Cooperative now runs a popular on-campus veg bag sale. All the veggies are seasonal, locally grown, organic.. and we get them for a reduced price from a great local farm so they are affordable too! More details…

Running an ethical Food Cooperative

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to get your hands on affordable wholefoods for your flat then look no further! This cooperative is a participatory way to buy your food – by joining the coop you can get cost-price wholefoods and be part of a voluntary team making it happen. The Hearty Squirrel now runs a stall at the EUSA shop at Potterow on Mondays. More details… 

Running Skills Workshops

We can all share skills to help everyone to serve up tasty, sustainable treats. The skills workshops programme of 2010/2011 has now come to end, but we are planning some more very soon. Watch this space! To get your appetite going, take a look at what we got up to last year…

Sending out inspiring monthly food newsletters

 

Ever feel alone in your quest to tackle local food issues? Well join our pledge and newsletter to join hundreds of other students and staff at the University in calling for action on the subject. In return for adding your voice to the chorus, we’ll send you a glitzy and entertaining food newsletter monthly, with seasonal recipes, events, vegetable poems and interesting links. Sign up here…

Get involved! Volunteer with us

Interested in taking our food activities to new levels? Volunteer with us! Contact us here…