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Bringing a fairer, healthier, more sustainable & resilient food system to Glasgow.

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Glasgow Food Policy Partnership @glasgowfpp.bsky.social · Jan 7
Glasgow Food Policy Partnership is now here on Bluesky!

Follow for updates on the work of our Partnership and the Glasgow City Food Plan, Scottish #foodpolicy news, and ways to get involved in Glasgow's #GoodFoodMovement.
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Last week our Food Economy group toured Glasgow Mushroom Co. with co-founder Hendrik 🍄

Want to learn more? Listen to “Glasgow Mushrooms: People, Process & Planet” on The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast

Growers - check out their Compost Club for free mushroom substrate: compostclub.glasgowmushroom.co
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Glasgow Sustainable Food Directory is back with another edition! Join us at Five March to celebrate 45 of Glasgow’s most sustainable restaurants, cafés, takeaways and food shops, and the businesses and communities they support and belong to.

Register here:
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October 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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🍽️ What if the meals served on campus could shape a healthier, more sustainable food future? Join us on the 11th November to explore how Glasgow’s universities and colleges are using sustainable procurement and menu design in their large-scale catering to affect real change in our food system.
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🍽️ Join us on 11 Nov (11am–12:30pm) for our webinar on Healthy, Sustainable Food in Glasgow’s Universities & Colleges. Hear from UofG, GCU, and City of Glasgow College about how they’re serving up good food for people & planet.
🔗 Register: bit.ly/uni-food-webinar
Image with a blue background and the text 'Healthy, Sustainable Food in Glasgow's Universities and Colleges' '11am - 12:30pm on Tuesday 11th November, Online Webinar, Register at bit.ly/uni-food-webinar' and the logos of Glasgow Food Policy Partnership, Food for Life Soil Association, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University, and City of Glasgow College. There is a collage in the centre of the image which features the buildings of each institution, some of the food they serve, and students holding food.
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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🍽️ Join us on 11 Nov (11am–12:30pm) for our webinar on Healthy, Sustainable Food in Glasgow’s Universities & Colleges. Hear from UofG, GCU, and City of Glasgow College about how they’re serving up good food for people & planet.
🔗 Register: bit.ly/uni-food-webinar
Image with a blue background and the text 'Healthy, Sustainable Food in Glasgow's Universities and Colleges' '11am - 12:30pm on Tuesday 11th November, Online Webinar, Register at bit.ly/uni-food-webinar' and the logos of Glasgow Food Policy Partnership, Food for Life Soil Association, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University, and City of Glasgow College. There is a collage in the centre of the image which features the buildings of each institution, some of the food they serve, and students holding food.
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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A better investment in life's essentials (Day 3 #CPW25) is necessary to effectively tackle poverty. This is why the work of the @glasgowfpp.bsky.social & the Glasgow City Food Plan towards a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system is so important. Read more www.gcph.co.uk/our-work/112...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Thanks to Sasha from St Paul's Youth Forum and those who braved the drizzly weather for making our tour on Tuesday such a great event.

It was fantastic to hear about all of St Pauls' different growing projects, exchange ideas and advice between projects, and meet the chickens!
six people in rain coats standing in front of a large polytunnel and smiling at the camera. Sasha from St Pauls holding one of their chickens while someone strokes the chickens back. A handpainted sign with blue letters that reads 'Blackhill Community Farm' 'All Welcome' with red flowers is in the bottom section of the image and over a fence you can see six people walking along a path towards two large polytunnels. Tomatoes, which are still green, growing on a vine.
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The Wester Common Unity Market is back on the 18th October between 10am and 2pm so get down to support a new initiative working to make fruit and veg more readily accessible for all!

Plus this month will see a Halloween theme, bread from Forn Bakery, and mushrooms from Glasgow Mushroom Co. 🎃
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October 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Glasgow Community Food Network is putting on a FREE, family-friendly harvest festival this Saturday!

🗓 Saturday 11th October
⏰ 11 am - 4 pm
📍 Civic House, 26 Civic St, Glasgow, G4 9RH
www.glasgowfood.info/harvest-fest
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October 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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What's in season in October and what should you plant?

Garlic should be planted before the frost but in late autumn or early winter so that it can grow during a cold period that will help bulb formation.

You can harvest it from May to August, and it stores well!
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October 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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🌱🐓 Community food in action!
Join us this autumn for a visit to St Paul’s Youth Forum in Provanmill — explore their gardens, meet the chickens, and share lunch in the café.

Spots are limited — sign up this Friday via the link in our bio!
Picture of 7 staff at St Pauls Youth Forum smiling and standing next to a raised bed growing plants in a wooded area. The logos for Glasgow Food Policy Partnership and St Paul's Youth Forum are in the bottom right corner and the text at the top reads 'Tour of St Paul's Youth Forum, Tuesday 7th October, 11:30-14:00, with Glasgow Food Policy Partnership' in a blue text box.
September 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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How can we, together, make the idea of state-supported restaurants a reality.

Whether you’re a food activist, policymaker, practitioner or citizen, come and be part of shaping the future of public diners. Find out more and sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-din...

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September 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Next Tuesday (23 Sept, 11:30–1), we’re hosting a webinar with NHSGGC: Healthy Weight Support Across the Life Course.

Learn about programmes from early years to adulthood -including Thrive Under 5, Weigh to Go, and breastfeeding support.

➡️ Free to join: bit.ly/healthy-weight-webinar
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September 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Tomorrow the University of Glasgow and Enable Glasgow Fortune Works are teaming up to host an exciting afternoon exploring the vibrant world of microgreens and their powerful role in community food resilience!

Find out more and sign up using this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainabl...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🥕🍎🫑 This Saturday!🥒🥔🫛

The Courtyard Pantry are hosting their first Wester Common Unity Market with affordable fresh produce and homemade cake, tea, and coffee.

Where: Courtyard Pantry, 2 Wester Common Drive, Glasgow
When: Saturday 20th, from 10am - 2pm
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September 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Check out Soil Association Scotland's work with Argyll and Bute Council and Wild Jura to include venison in school meals below ⬇️
soilassocscot.bsky.social Soil Association Scotland @soilassocscot.bsky.social · Sep 4
Happy #EatScottishVenisonDay! 🦌

We're all about making good food the easy choice, and it's brilliant to see Scottish venison on the menu like schools on Islay and Jura.

Want to read about a pilot project that brought venison to school plates? 👇
www.soilassociation.org/our-work-in-...
September 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Our next webinar, in collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, is taking place 3 weeks today and will discuss the support available for families and individuals in maintaining a healthy weight.

Find out more and register at bit.ly/healthy-weight-webinar
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September 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Our latest newsletter with upcoming events, webinars, and opportunities to participate in research has just been sent out.

If you don't already subscribe you can check it out here: mailchi.mp/dfb1bb0a1ee5...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Glasgow Community Food Network hosted the second #FullOfBeans Summer Session last week.

Huge thanks to Alma of Alma's Mexican who cooked up not 1 but 2 delicious bean recipes!

Jenny led a creative session thinking about our favourite bean dishes and festive traditions which include beans.
August 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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New research partnership aiming to better understand the reasons for dietary & health inequalities in low-income areas of Glasgow.
Funded by @ukri.org led by @uofglasgow.bsky.social with GCPH @glasgowfpp.bsky.social @glasgowcc.bsky.social @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social & GCFN
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Research partnership to tackle dietary inequalities in Glasgow
Research partnership to tackle dietary inequalities in Glasgow
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August 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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What's in season and what should be planted in August?
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August 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Join Glasgow's Cash First Partnership on the 2nd September to hear about the support, information and advice provided by Glasgow Helps, and an overview of the Support & Information Service’s emergency crisis support available at hospitals across NHS GGC

uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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We had a great time last week at the first of the Full of Beans Summer Sessions, trying delicious dishes and sharing our own bean histories and memories in a creative workshop.

If you’d like to take part in the next two sessions, you can sign up here www.glasgowfood.info/beans-summer-sessions
Workshop participants sitting inside around a table covered in collage materials, making zines. Poster for full of beans summer sessions with the text: 'Full of Beans Free Summer Sessions Cooking demonstration Make a zine Contribute to a community recipe book Eat delicious food Three Dates Thurs 14th August Woodlands Community Meeting Room Thurs 21st Aug Gathering Ground Fri 5th Sept Garnethill Multicultural Centre' At the bottom of the image are the logos for the Food and Climate Action team, Glasgow Community Food Network, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Food Policy Partnership, Central West Integration Network, National Lottery Community Fund. Event attendees standing in front of the community chefs demonstrating their dishes. Picture of someone in a green apron adding a jar of white beans to a pan with a tomatoey sauce.
August 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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How do we unlock the power of local food? 🥕 Join @sustainweb.org as they share insights from the recently published Local Food Growth on how to scale the sector for security, economic and placemaking benefits 📅 Thursday 18 Sept🕒11-12 Register now👉 www.sustainweb.org/events/power...
How can we unlock the power of local food? | Sustain
Join us as we share insights from the recently published Local Food Growth Plan, and on how we can scale the local food sector for security, economic and placemaking benefits.
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August 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The deadline to respond to the Scottish Government Committees for Local Government, Housing and Planning and Health, Social Care and Sport's calls for views on the Government’s Good Food Nation Proposed National Plan is this Friday.

You can respond via the link in our bio.
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August 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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It's World Breastfeeding Week 2025, with a focus on how breastfeeding can support a sustainable environment.

What better time to go back and revisit our podcast episodes on breastfeeding - just search for The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast on Spotify.

#WBW2025
August 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM