Snowdrops at Druim Ard

 

Transition Black Isle is part of the worldwide Transition movement, and we see our role as helping Black Isle communities thrive in the face of climate change and disruption to global resources.  Our activities include encouraging non-car travel, promoting energy saving measures, running community markets, supporting local food producers as well as helping people to grow more of their own food and to make their own compost.

As a partner in the Highland Community Waste Partnership, TBI is actively working with the community to reduce waste and consumption and increase reuse, repair and recycling.

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TBI Potato Day 2025

 

TBI's popular Potato Day will be held this year on Saturday 1 March, in North Kessock Village Hall, from 10.30 to 2.30.

 

Over forty varieties of seed potatoes will be on sale at 20p per tuber, as well as onion sets, seed swap, growing advice  and a cafe selling soup, cakes and tea and coffee.

Full details are on our  Potato Day page

 


Latest Home page feature article
Caroline Lucas on Just Stop Oil activists' sentences


Black Isle Repair Cafe 

The monthly Black Isle Repair Café roams the community spaces of the Black Isle with the aim of making repair and reuse more accessible to residents.
 

Food and Growing

TBI has produced a comprehensive Growing Guide (still available) for the north of Scotland, run several series of 'Grow North' workshops on a range of growing topics, and a very popular seed potato sale in early March.

Climate change

We provide  information about the serious threat posed by climate change and the need to drastically reduce carbon emissions caused by our burning of fossil fuels.  We report on governments' climate change plans, on activists' climate protests and on 'Green New Deal' proposals for a more sustainable world.

Black Isle Larder

The Black Isle Larder website replaces an earlier 'Your Local Larder' booklet which had become out of date.  It provides up to date information both to local people and visitors about Black Isle producers and suppliers offering food and drink largely sourced here.  

Travel and Tourism

TBI's Million Miles project reduced car use significantly, and we continue to encourage public transport and cycling, with an associated bike hire business and publication of an Active Travel map and guides to Black Isle cycle routes.

Plastics and waste

With pollution from single-use plastics a top cause of environmental concern, a group has been set up within TBI to exchange ideas and information on the issue and ultimately to change the attitudes and actions of people and businesses on the Black Isle.


Caroline Lucas on Just Stop Oil activists'sentences

'Five years in prison for nonviolent protest: it’s plain wrong, and Keir Starmer knows it'

As prison sentences of up to five years given to 'Just Stop Oil' activists in 2023 were to be reviewed by the Court of Appeal, former Green Party MP Caroline Lucas notes the widespread protests by national and international organisations against 'sentences which were believed to be the harshest ever for peaceful protest in Britain'. . .'For damaging picture frames, obstructing the road, or just talking about obstructing the road, they have received punishments that we would normally reserve for serious crimes. People trying to draw attention to the government failure to confront the cause of the climate crisis were imprisoned for up to five years'.

She warns that  'If the courts let 16 climate activists’ draconian sentences stand this week, we are no better than an authoritarian state'.

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The Guardian  29 January 2025

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Forthcoming Events…

Saturday 15 February
10:00 Cukbokie Community Market
Saturday 22 February
10:00 North Kessock Community Market
Monday 24 February
19:00 Culbokie Community Trust AGM
Wednesday 26 February
19:00 Integrating Trees Network River bank planting
Thursday 27 February
09:30 Share and Repair Gathering 2025 Stirling
Saturday 1 March
10:30 TBI Potato Day 2025
Saturday 8 March
10:30 Cromarty Community Market
11:00 HCWP and BI Repair Cafe celebration

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We are part of the rapidly expanding worldwide Transition Towns movement. The Black Isle is a peninsula of about 100 sq miles ENE of Inverness in Scotland, UK.