Teach Food Studies

Happy new margaritas to me

Thinking differently about how our food system can work. Food brings people together.

Public Diners: Infrastructure for a Good Food Nation Join us as we begin to design a new piece of social infrastructure in Scotland: the public diner.

My lovely colleague Ms Dunne has great experience of farm life and understands where our food comes from! She enrolled her parents to make this video about their dairy farm in Cork. Looking forward to sharing it with our classes. 🐄 🐮 🥛

A day in the life of a Dairy Farmer

Busy times but enjoying the new food opportunities the job has brought me recently… visit to Glasgow to see James Martin live with Ms Dunne.
Then a cooking competition at Forth Valley College with two lovely pupils who worked their socks off.
Then a visit from the Royal Navy chefs. Now to get planning some Christmas cooking kits and open my Jamie’s Christmas recipe book again. Favourite food time.

Last chance to sign up for the study below and find out if you can save money by reducing your food waste! Receive a £20 payment for taking part, and be entered into £100 weekly prize draws.

Registration closes - 12pm, Friday 10th November.

Fife Council has been working with Zero Waste Scotland and Resource Futures to carry out a food waste study in Fife.

Take part in the survey: https://bit.ly/fifefoodwastesurvey

Imagine a better food system…

Competition: The Food Futures Challenge This World Food Day, young people from across Scotland are invited to put their imaginations to the test and think about their vision for a better food future.

Finally completed probation year. Had a great time at Levenmouth, met the most amazing kids and learned loads from my team, steep learning curves and all! Excited to see what I remember after 6 weeks off 😳
Have so much to learn but determined to do just that

Would any of my friends have contacts with a nursery who would like to see their kids eat more veg? Great project going that would like to expand into other nurseries for those interested!

Peas Please - Crookfur Family Centre Nursery This is "Peas Please - Crookfur Family Centre Nursery" by YADA YADA on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Fantastic news after 7 years of campaigning! Look forward to seeing how the commission works.

Scottish Food Coalition TAKING STOCK AFTER 7 YEARS OF CAMPAIGNING FOR A GOOD FOOD NATION BILL Why have we spent years pushing for a new law to be introduced? We knew that our food system was in trouble, and that a robust...

Raffle for Ukraine with lots of food and drink prizes - only two days left Award-winning chocolatier, Sebastian Kobelt, has rallied support from fellow independent Scottish food and drink producers and restaurants across Scotland for an online raffle to raise funds for Ukraine. Over £4000 has been raised so far but ideally £5000 is needed as this will feed 100 families f...

As world food shortages and high costs start to hit we desperately need to increase the volume of food grown in Scotland.

Scotland is 98% rural and most of this land is devoted to agriculture. However, the best arable land is largely used to produce animal feed or grain for the alcohol industry, rather than food for human consumption. In 2020, the total area used to grow cereals and oilseeds was dominated by barley and wheat (85%), while vegetables and soft fruit production only represented 0.4% !

New report on Scotland’s food system here https://www.foodcoalition.scot/uploads/6/2/6/8/62689573/sfc_goodfoodnation_report.pdf

Not on my watch!
Meanwhile in England the National Food Strategy calls for radical investment in food education.

Home economics 'disappearing' from some Scottish schools Home economics must no longer be treated as a 'poor relation' in the curriculum, says union

Could cooking therapy help your mental health? From burnout to anxiety or grief - the research is in its infancy, but there are a growing number of therapists using cooking to help people improve their mental health.

Campaigning at Scottish Parliament today with my colleagues from Scottish Food Coalition to strengthen the Good Food Nation Bill. Hoping for an independent food commission so government are not marking their own homework. Also hoping to see big progress on children’s food and food education.
Scottish kids get an average of 1.8 portions of their 5 a day.
1 in 10 parents are very likely to use a foodbank in the next 3 months and they don’t tend to give out fresh produce…so where is it going to come from?

Any sign of the Nat 5 climate change coming out in Scotland? 🤔

Sky News on Twitter “The course will aim to give young people "a deeper knowledge of the natural world around them", and it will be available to students from 2025 https://t.co/2T0rluyHUW”

Ukraine war could worsen crises in Yemen and Afghanistan While the world focuses on Ukraine, the UN warns humanitarian needs elsewhere are also growing.

Next cohort of Home Economics teachers celebrating end of placement and carrying out some serious sensory testing.

Time to ask for change from the big chiefs!

Good Food Nation Day of Action A Good Food Nation is within reach. Join this collective Day of Action to call on MSPs to transform our food systems for the better.

Follow Chair of Scottish Food Coalition, Professor Mary Brennan as she tours Scotland to find out what the real food story is, the barriers to making it a Good Food Nation and what it might take to get there... https://www.foodcoalition.scot/marys-tour

Mary's Tour ​​ Dispatches from Glasgow City Back on the road on Monday 21st Feb, first stop Glasgow City (south) to visit Locavore Govanhill (where I met Dorothea “Doro” Warlich), Manswewood High Park...