Talking Turnips #1 Woodlands Community Garden

This is the first interview for Talking Turnips and its setting off a chain reaction of interviews amongst the many Local Food projects in Glasgow.

We'll be posting an interview every month (or more often if you're lucky) from a Local Food project in Glasgow, by a Local Food project in Glasgow. Each interviewee gets the opportunity to become interviewer for the next Talking Turnips, and can chose a local food project that they want to interview.

This month, Roz Corbett, who is a volunteer for Urban Roots and Dennistoun Diggers, interviews Tim Cowen from Woodlands Community Garden. If you're interested in being interviewed, or being an interviewer, please email Roz 

Open Letter on GM

Last week Environment Secretary Owen Paterson backed introducing genetically modified (GM) food production in the UK. In his speech he said there were "real environmental benefits" to the technology and dismissed concerns about its impact on human health as "complete nonsense".


The Scottish Government opposes GM foods and so our good friends over at The Fife Diet have written an open letter to the new Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse MSP and to James Withers, Scotland Food and Drink’s CEO urging them to re-articulate the Scottish Government’s opposition to GM foods.

You can sign the letter on The Fife Diet website and we have copied the text for you to read below (to follow the links please visit the Fife Diet website!).

Gasland - a review

Last week about 40 people came along to The Glad Cafe (an amazing new music and cultural venue on the Southside of Glasgow!) to watch the award winning documentary Gasland.

We were treated to some fantastic food - a vegetable curry and chapatis - all made from locally grown food supplied by Glasgow Locavore and cooked by Clem and Kate (thanks guys!)

I hadn't seen the film before but I had heard a lot about it and how it really highlights the dash for gas in the US as a result of the political desire for energy security and domestic energy supplies. This has seen huge corporations frack there way from state-to-state resulting in the huge negative health and environmental impacts that the film documents.