Next GLFN meeting

Next meeting:

6.00 – 7.45

Tuesday 4^th March

The Boilerhouse, Hidden Gardens, Albert Drive

All welcome! Come along for a quick pancake from 5.30 – 6, before the main meeting starts.  Bring a filling.

Agenda includes:

- Glasgow Sustainable Food City update

- Planning for Empire Cafe event in July

- Planning for FEVA event in May

- GLFN film update

- Feedback from GLFN structure survey

Job Opportunity - Nourish Scotland

Come and join the Nourish office! Nourish Scotland is reconnecting producers, growers, retailers, consumers and all who care for local, sustainable food in Scotland. It is working to create a stronger food culture to make healthy, local, seasonal, and organic food available everywhere in Scotland.

Nourish has vacancies for a Communications Manager & the Edible Edinburgh Development Officer, both posts are part time for a year, closing date Monday 3rd March. Full details are on their website.

They are also looking for a student to join us through the Third Sector Internship scheme, to help us plan this year's conference, over the summer.  Closing date Friday February 21st. Full details on their website

Spring Get Together, Seed Swap and GAF Potato Day - Sun 23 Feb 2014

Once again the Glasgow Local Food Network are teaming up with the Glasgow Allotments Forum to run the Potato Day and Seed Swap which will take place from 11am to 3pm on Sunday 23 February at the Pearce Institute in Govan.

GAF will order in sackloads by the tonne of loads of different varieties, from the household names to the uber-obscure.

GLFN will host a seed swap table, starting with donations from kosher seed companies - but really we want you to bring your locally saved good seed stocks to swap and share with other local growers across glasgow.
 
There will also be a programme of workshops throughout the day for sharing skills and knowledge.

You can find out more about the Potato Day including a wee bit of background, details of the suppliers who will be coming along and a full price list of seed potatoes and other things that will be available on the Glasgow Allotment Forum website. See-d you there!

Job opportunities

There are a couple of job opportunities on the go at the moment...

Partick Housing Association currently have an opportunity for a part time Horticultural Support Officer. The post is for 21 hours per week and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund until October 2014. The deadline for receiving applications is 12 noon on Friday 17th January 2014.  Interviews will be held on Tuesday 28th January 2014. More info on their website.

Lambhill Stables  are looking for a Community Gardener to work hands on and manage volunteers in the 1 acre community garden on a daily basis. The post is full time and the deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 31st January. More details on their website.

Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill - Information and discussion event

The Scottish Government have launched the consultation for the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Bill. This is the last chance for you to influence government policy in areas including:

1. A right for communities to take over underused public sector land and assets.
2. A Community right to buy in urban areas.
3. Changes to allotment law.

If we act together as a network we have more chance of influencing policy.

The consultation document is 75 pages long and has 71 questions – however, FCFCG have produced a 3 page briefing highlighting the 23 questions that they think are most relevant to community gardens.  Please click here to download this briefing.  The consultation is open until January 24th - given that this covers the Christmas period,  time to respond is limited.    

FCFCG are hosting a further explanation and discussion of how this affects projects on December 13th in Glasgow, in association with the Glasgow Local Food Network.  An MSP will be attending this event to give advice on how to influence politicians, both at a policy level and by organising a visit to your project. If you would like to attend the (free) event, please go to the registration page.
 

A Growing Exchange

We are excited to announce the UK premiere of the documentary A Growing Exchange

   

Sunday 24th November 3pm at the CCA Glasgow 

350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

Growing Community Projects along the Food Chain

Growing Community Projects Along The Food Chain – Making The Links, Wednesday 25th September

This large-scale networking day has been organised by Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens in conjunction with Keep Scotland Beautiful (which manages the Climate Challenge Fund), Nourish Scotland and the Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations (CEMVO Scotland).

The event will explore how communities can be involved in all parts of local food networks from growing and selling, to eating and composting. There will also be real-life examples from community growing projects that are already involved in growing local food, including Maryhill Community Central Hall Garden.