Past Events
Food
Carbon Conversations
Courses start on 27 February & 6 March 2012
Carbon Conversations is an inspiring, practical 6-session course on low-carbon living. It was recently featured in the Guardian as one of the 20 best solutions to climate change.
Free Talk @ Eastgate Theatre: Alastair McIntosh – The Pornography of Consumerism
9th February 2012 7.30pm
International speaker, Alastair McIntosh returns to the Eastgate to deliver another thought-provoking and stimulating presentation. Academic, environmentalist, activist and founder member of the Gal Gael Trust in Glasgow, the author of “Soil and Soul” and “Hell and High Water” and regular contributor to Thought for Today on Radio Scotland, Alastiar will explore consumerism and other related topics.
Free Village Lunches and Energy Clinics
12th November and 26th November
Free Local Food Village Lunch and Energy Advice Clinics
Come and join us at our village lunches, offering free local food prepared by our Food Group. The Energy Clinic will provide information and advice on energy saving ideas, including insulation and lighting solutions. Mrs Mash the story telling cook will provide entertainment for children. Zero Waste will also provide advice on how to save money on wasted food.
Dates: Traquair Village Hall, 12th November (no Mrs Mash) and Cardrona Village Hall, 26th November (Christmas themed event). Opening times 11am – 3pm.
Family Apple Picking Day
2 October 2011
Come and pick apples from this beautiful orchard. Press your own juice. Take apples home for cooking and eating.
Traquair House Orchard, 2 October, 2-4pm
Walk-in energy clinic and village lunch with Mrs Mash Storyteller
24 September 2011
The walk-in clinic will cover insulation, energy saving tips, lighting display and information. The village lunches will be made from local produce and are free! Waste Aware will help you with your composting queries and Mrs Mash will entertain the younger visitors.
Kirkton Manor Village Hall, 24 September 2011, 11am to 3.30pm.
Further information about our Walk-in Energy Clinics can be found here
A Taste of Peebles
10 September 2011
Tweedgreen Event to Celebrate Local Food
Enjoy a Taste of Peebles, an opportunity to sample local food during the Tour of Britain.
On the evening of 10th September, Peebles High Street will be a blur of activity, as professional cyclists race around town competing in the Scottish Borders Exhibition Criterium Race. To heighten the festive spirit of the Tour of Britain, and to provide refreshments to spectators and competitors alike, Tweedgreen is organising a street food fair. “A Taste of Peebles” will be held on School Brae from 5.30pm to 8.00pm.
Gary White, Tweedgreen Project Coordinator said: “The Taste of Peebles event is designed to showcase our local food producers, retailers and suppliers. The event will be an opportunity for local food traders to provide a sample of their delicious food during Saturday’s Tour of Britain programme”.
The Taste of Peebles event will provide opportunities for families to relax and enjoy the evening in a relaxed, lively atmosphere and try samples from some of our most famous restaurants, cafés and local food retailers.
The Taste of Peebles event is also a part of Blasda, a national local food feast initiated by the Fife Diet group. (Blasda is Gaelic for tasty!). Tweedgreen is proud to have been selected as one of 12 groups nationally to take part in Blasda. For more info on Blasda, please click here
Entry is free
PLEASE NOTE: THE FAMILY FUN RIDE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO SAFETY CONCERNS
Tweedgreen Local Food Champion
Tweedgreen is looking for a dynamic individual to champion local food in the Scottish Borders. We are a community organisation of local volunteers working towards a self-sustaining Tweeddale by promoting local food and reducing energy use and waste. We have again been awarded Climate Challenge funding and are looking for an energetic and self-motivated person to join our small team and take our food projects forward. We would like to engage someone with an understanding of, and commitment to, the issues, good communication skills and, ideally, previous experience in implementing food related projects. If you care about climate change and would like to help the Tweeddale community make a difference, please email [email protected] for more details.
Full-time post until end March 2012, based in Peebles. Some flexible working hours required. Salary £2,383 per month. Closing date for applications (CV and cover letter) 11th April. Interviews to be held on 21st April. Jobshare applications considered.
Tweedgreen Food Group Book Launch
23 November 2010
Last night the Tweedgreen food group launched its…
Recipe Book and Local Food Directory Book with speakers Mike Small and Fiona Houston.
“Building a Local Food Movement”
Mike Small is the Founder and Director of Fife Diet, a network of people committed to relocalising food. Its members aim to source and eat food from Fife alone. Fife Diet was set up in 2007 and now boasts over 1000 members. Fife Diet has won a host of green awards, including the Ethical Contribution of the Year 2009 in the Observer Food Monthly.
In 2005 Fiona Houston (aka Fi Martynoga) was challenged to prove her claim that people ate better two hundred years ago than they do now. In order to keep to the almost entirely local food of her rural ancestors, she immersed herself for a whole year in the lifestyle of the 1790s, writing about it each month for The Herald. She has since brought out a fuller account, The Garden Cottage Diaries, and continues to lecture about her year’s experiment , not simply for its historical interest but because it reflects on how we currently live. Fi is a member of the Tweedgreen Food Group.
Local Food Week 2010
18 – 24 September 2010
The Tweedgreen Local Food Week 2010 took place from 18 – 24 September.
| Local Food Event - Sat 18th / 10am–4pm | ||
| Eastgate Theatre | Drop-by information stand | Information on local food and tastings |
| Family Apple Picking Day - Sun 19th / 2pm | ||
| Traquair House, Traquair | Family day out | Family apple picking at Traquair. Pick and take home. Entrance fee to Traquair Gardens payable on the day. Tickets for apple picking (FOC) available at Tweedgreen Office (The Bridge, School Brae) or email [email protected] |
| Food, Inc. – Tue 21st / 7.30pm | ||
| Eastgate Theatre | Film | Food Inc. - An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry. You’ll never look at dinner in the same way again. Featuring after-screen Q and A session. Tickets available (FOC) at the EG box office. |
| Pickling & Preserving Workshop – Wed 22nd / 7pm | ||
| Whitmuir, the Organic Place, Lamancha | Workshop | Join the Whitmuir Chef for a Pickling and Preserving workshop. Learn how to preserve and store seasonal produce for all-year-round enjoyment. Tickets available (FOC) from Whitmuir, the Tweedgreen Office or email [email protected] |
| Local Delights – Thu 23rd / 7pm | ||
| The Drill Hall, Peebles | Demonstration and workshop | Learn how to make delicious local delights, including ice cream, yoghurt, barley bannocks and many others. Tickets available (FOC) at Tweedgreen Office or email [email protected] |
What would Peebles High Street look like with an extra £1.5 million per year?
This is how much would be brought in if every household in Peebles spent just £5 or £10 of their weekly food budget in the local shops. Across Scotland only 6% of our retail food budget is spent in our independent shops. Buying local means that more money is recycled within our community rather than being taken out of Tweeddale.
Food smiles, not food miles!
Local food often has a lower carbon footprint – not just because of the energy used to transport food, but also because it uses less energy in refrigeration, processing and packaging.
Let’s take one million cars off the road
That’s the equivalent carbon saving as you’d get from converting all UK farmland to organic. Nitrous oxide (300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide) is released from the soil as a result of fertilizer use. Buying organic significantly reduces emissions of this dangerous greenhouse gas.
Love life? Love local food!
Eating locally has a positive impact on your health. It means eating the freshest, in-season ingredients, packed with nutrients, and avoiding most processed food. This means we are reducing our intake of salt, sugar and harmful additives.
What can I do?
Eat 1 meal (or more!) per week from local produce. Join us, and hundreds of others and find out how you can support our local retailers and producers, get healthier and reduce your carbon footprint.