Highland Good Food Partnership

website      https://highlandgoodfood.scot/

email         hello@highlandgoodfood.scot

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All HGFP podcasts and blogs have been archived and can be found here

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*December 2024

Creating connections at Inverness Food Conversations

We held a Food Conversation in the lovely Inverness Creative Academy over two afternoons in November; exploring the Inverness-area food system. With representatives from community growing groups, Highland Council, producers, NHS Highland, poverty action groups, GROW project at Inverness Botanic Garden, Highland Adapts, the Prison Service and more, it was an eclectic and lively discussion.

It was so helpful to have a diverse range of stakeholders in a focussed discussion on food, allowing us to explore ideas specific to the Inverness-area: including the potential of public procurement, redirection of food away from waste, the potential of food hubs and generally increasing local food accessible for local people. And more Highland pineapples!

We were delighted to see useful connections being made between organisations, especially linking organisations 'needs' and 'offers' to create food relationships that benefit everyone.

We are very grateful to the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission for funding the event. The Food Conversation free resources are excellent and well worth a look if you want to run a conversation in your community or workplace.

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February 2023

New Community Growing organiser

February 2023

HGFP newsletter January - February 2023

Probably the most important though not very prominent item in the newsletter is a link to the response made by HGFP to the recent Scottish Government consultation on its proposed new Agriculture Bill, which will be largely concerned with shaping a new structure of financial support for farming and crofting.  The detailed and thoughtful response makes the point that support must not be directed exclusively towards farmers who can demonstrate an improvement in emissions reduction etc. at the expense of those who are already performing well.

Other items include a farewell to Project Officer Josie Fraser, who is going to work with Alex Davies at the Black Isle Brewery's market at Allangrange.  

Read the newsletter

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October 2021

HGFP development update

After the great success of phases one and two of the Highland Good Food Conversation, we are now in the process of developing a Highland-wide Food Partnership to support, facilitate and enable the push to a sustainable food system.

We have four thematic groups which will help to move this process forward:  these are Local Food Economy, Education and Training, Health and Wellbeing and Community Food. They will help project groups achieve their aims by providing advice, resources and support. The thematic groups also have representatives that attend support group meetings with the HGFP core team to keep everyone updated on projects and ensure a good flow of information.

With these structures now in place, we encourage project groups to come back together to revisit their ideas from the conference, and get in touch with any new project ideas that you have!

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March 2021

Highland Good Food Conference Report published

The report is available to view and download as a clearly laid out and very legible PDF file.

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The origin - How do we get more local, sustainable food on local dinner plates?

This is the question the Highland Good Food Conversation plans to explore, and then inspire the necessary action.  You are invited to join the conversation and be part of the movement.  Over the last few months we have all witnessed how precarious our food system is, and how during this crisis, it was our local food producers and retailers who passionately rose to the challenge of getting food to us all.  Because of this, there is now a lot of momentum and energy in the local food sector, and many are keen to see a food system that is better for the planet, better for people and better for producers.

To build on this enthusiasm and awareness The Pebble Trust and Transition Black Isle have jointly funded the Highland Good Food Conversation.  This initiative aims to bring people together from across the Highlands who are interested in sustainable local food; to develop a vision for the Highlands and identify key actions to take forward.  The main purpose of the Conversation is to inspire people and facilitate real action to change our food system for the better.

Conversation launch        August 2020

website    https://highlandgoodfood.scot/

email       hello@highlandgoodfood.scot