Tagged: fife

May 31, 2021

Climate Action Fife

A friend reminded me that this blog existed, apologies, I have been lazy and just sharing short posts on F*cebook.

EATS Rosyth have been lucky to have been working in partnership with some fantastic groups as part of Climate Action Fife this year. We are delivering climate friendly food and gardening workshops, taking part in a Food Summit, planning some tree planting and much more. It’s been a great project with lots of opportunities to get stuck in and try new things, we even produced our first podcast! With COP26 fast approaching there’s never been a better time to learn more about small actions we can take and big noises we can make to get the climate emergency under control.

As part of the project I wrote a couple of blog pieces I thought I would share here…starting with one on our favourite topic of food waste!

THE POWER OF YOUR PLATE

Climate Action Fife is a partnership project between Greener Kirkcaldy, Fife Council, Fife College and Fife Communities Climate Action Network, bringing together individuals, communities, local government and businesses to tackle the climate emergency and make Fife a greener and fairer place to live. It is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund’s new Climate Action Fund, which enables people and communities to take the lead in tackling the climate emergency.

February 23, 2020

Good Food Nation Workshops

Had the privilege of bringing my two roles together last week hosting a Good Food Nation workshop in my workplace at Rosyth Community Hub. It was great to see a good number of local residents making the effort to come along and dig into the challenges in our conversations.

Thanks to Diana for expertly guiding and leading us through the event which gave us an opportunity to examine some of the rather shocking stats and figures at the heart of our current food system.

The Good Food Nation Bill is an opportunity to fix many broken parts of our system by putting in place guidance, measures and checks and most importantly people to oversee it. Someone who cares and is paying attention. Someone (or some group) who can see the big picture and how one policy impacts on another, on how one piece of legislation might have positive or negative impacts on another area. If you want to see progress on tackling food poverty, food waste, inequality in access to healthy food, inequality in farmers and producers rights, then this is a good place to start. Write to your MSP and ask them to make change to help improve our food and the huge industry that surrounds it. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

July 27, 2016

EATS Rosyth project

Not sure where to start with this post, it’s taken me long enough to get around to it. I have made reference to all the exciting projects happening recently in and around Fife in some earlier blog posts and I’m delighted to be working with one of those now! It has been a very busy time for everyone involved, hence the lack of blogging the past few months! If you use it, you may find my updates more regular on my Facebook page www.facebook.com/failedfoody

EATS Rosyth (Edible & Tasty Spaces) is a project supported by Rosyth Community Council and Climate Challenge Fund. We have targets to reach which involve reducing carbon emissions by 569 tonnes over 10 years through a combination of growing and composting programmes and education about carbon literacy and reducing food waste. We want more people to grow their own food at home and my part will be to help people create affordable and nutritious meals with their local produce. Scotland is a fantastic place to grow and yet we have all become too reliant on our local supermarkets and imported food travelling many food miles. We are losing the skills to feed ourselves healthy locally grown food and our children are losing the knowledge of where their food comes from.

I am not much of a gardener myself but I am learning and I am passionate about food issues. I am learning more about Scotland’s food and diet (!) and have been cooking with lots of kale, beetroot, potatoes, herbs and root veg. I am excited to have the opportunity to play my part and join in the good work being carried out by the numerous dedicated volunteers in the area. I have a great team working with me, expert gardeners and horticulturalists and people who are determined to see improvements in the local environment.

If you live in Rosyth and want to get involved please let me know, comment below or email me karen@eatsrosyth.org.uk

Or if you are working on a climate change project or a community project like ours please say hi. So much to learn and share with each other, and much work to be done!

Here’s our video explaining more, produced by Greg Bell http://youtu.be/RQ0l2kwtbYA

April 4, 2016

March munchies

Well that was quite the month for good food. I promised I would let you know how I got on with the Sri Spice kits I picked up at the recent Inverkeithing Food Group film night. I went for a chicken curry using the Cardamom and Peppers kit. Served with a side of Punchy Pineapple.

Chicken cardamom and peppers curry

Punchy pineapple

Both were really tasty, authentic spice flavours coming through and the recipes still provided room to customise to your own tastes. Next time I would be tempted to use less coconut milk but that’s just me! And the pineapple was the perfect accompaniment and provided the refreshing tang to complement the curry. Will certainly be keen to buy some other options from the range, maybe next time the Galle curry having never tried this style curry before!

I also took my daughter along to see Frank the food truck and the Edinburgh Food Social team who came to Rosyth and provided some excellent takeaway meal options to the children. We tried the lentil soup and cheese scones and they were very well received! Much appreciated. We hear he’s coming back April 22nd..

Soup, scone & recipe card @ Parkgate centre, Rosyth

I ended the month with a lovely Easter holiday to my hometown of Newtownards in Northern Ireland and it happens to be the NI Year of Food and Drink. I managed to get along to visit Indie Füde, a great little deli tucked away in the courtyard in Comber. Specialising in providing quality Irish produce from a huge range of food and drink businesses they sum up all that is great about food in Ireland. Many small, artisan and local businesses are represented and you can see the wonders of such things as Shortcross Gin, La Coquine handmade chocolates from Holywood, Peppup roasted pepper and tomato ketchup and the delicious Abernethy Butter. MMMMMM

I picked up this little lot..and today made a nice vegetable soup with added Kombu. Will probably just start adding it to everything to be honest.

Indie Fude treats

Saving my trip to The Kitchin restaurant in Edinburgh for next post but let’s just say it was a good grub month.

June 28, 2015

Rosyth community market

Nothing beats a decent farmers market, and I am delighted that my home town has recently started to host it’s very own. It is an indoor community market of local food producers and local crafts but is already so popular that stalls are spilling outside to the sunshine.

It is lovely to see the town so busy and the market has been very well supported so far with large crowds attending (last Sunday of each month).

I treated myself to some nice crafts for end of term teachers gifts. But what I really went in search of was some more delicious Woodlea Stables fresh bread. Their sourdough and French breadsticks are so tasty and you can visit the farm at weekends for fresh loaves and eggs, located on back road near Crossgates.

Also got my hands on a wee jar of Spice of Fife Strawberry, Black Pepper and Chilli jam, apparently good with ice creammmm.

If you happen to be in the area you can help yourself to some free food from the planters kindly being looked after by EATS (Edible and Tasty Spaces) and willing volunteers from the local community. Check out http://www.rosythcommunitycouncil.org.uk for more info.