The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast Glasgow Food Policy Partnership

This episode is the first of two episodes exploring research into community food projects in Glasgow. In this episode Dr Helen Traill, Lecturer in Political Economy and Sustainability at the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School, speaks about her recently published book, The Practice of Collective Escape: Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects.



This episode includes discussion of the two community green spaces which form the case studies of the book, the political and social dynamics at play in these spaces, and why they're important.



Useful links:

The Practice of Collective Escape

Evaluation of the Glasgow City Food PlanRhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre

Community Gardening as Social Action by Claire Nettle

For this episode we hear all about the benefits of eating more beans and the plans for the new Full of Beans campaign taking place in Glasgow this year.



Contributions from Beans is How, the global campaign to double bean consumption by 2028, the BeanMeals research project which is researching how we can incorporate locally grown beans into our school meals, and Glasgow's very own bean team talking about how the campaign came about, our plans for the next few months, and how you can get involved.



The contributions have been adapted from the Full of Beans launch webinar - if you would prefer to watch the complete version with slides, you can find it here.



Useful links:

Full of Beans Webpage

BeanMeals

Beans is How

Chef's Manifesto

This episode of the podcast is all about the Interfaith Food Justice Network and its members.


It features speakers from SEVA Scotland, Hwupenyu Health and Wellbeing Project, and Stirling Aid discussing interfaith collaboration and knowledge sharing, how belief informs their food work, and the importance of culturally important food.



Useful links:

The Interfaith Food Justice Network

The Interfaith Food Justice Declaration

Hwupenyu Health and Wellbeing Project

SEVA Scotland

Stirling Aid

For this episode we're at Nourish Scotland's Veg Summit, hearing from a range of policymakers, producers, and stakeholders with their thoughts on getting Scotland eating more veg.

If you want to find out why people in Scotland aren't eating more vegetables, especially ones grown here, and some of the ways we can work to change this, then this is the episode for you. From dietary health to public procurement to growing our own, this episode covers it all.



Useful links:

⁠Nourish Scotland⁠

⁠Food Standards Scotland⁠

⁠Kettle Produce⁠

⁠Sustainable Food Places⁠

⁠Argyll and Bute Council⁠

⁠Central and West Integration Network⁠

⁠Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living Programme⁠

⁠FEL Scotland⁠

⁠Forth Valley Food Futures⁠

⁠Edinburgh Garden Partners

For this episode we were joined by members of Govan Community Project's Food For All group who shared their work of bringing together the lived experience of asylum seekers using food provision services to inform service delivery and policy. We also heard from a Trustee of Glasgow South East Food Bank and their linkage with The Trussell Trust on their Guarantee Our Essentials Campaign.



Useful links:

Govan Community Project

Glasgow South East Foodbank
Guarantee Our Essentials - Sign the Petition

Resources from the Food for All Group

For the second part in our tour of Glasgow's East End we take a tour of the Greencity Wholefoods warehouse and hear about their commitment to supplying ethical food. For our final stop we hear all about the sustainable practices at Italian inspired meets Scottish seasonality restaurant Celentano's.



Useful links:

Check out Glasgow Open Doors' other tours

Greencity Wholefoods

Celentano's