In this episode Thalia talks to Charlotte Keeley from Glasgow Community Food Network and Judy Wilkinson from Glasgow Allotment Forum. They discuss the benefits of food growing for our health, the environment, and as a more ethical method of production. Listen to hear more about why it is so important that more growing space is made available in Glasgow.

Check out the links below for everything mentioned in the podcast, and some other useful links:

Glasgow Allotments Forum

Food and Climate Action Project

Glasgow Food Growing Strategy 2020-2025

Pasture Fed Livestock Association

Street Goats

Edible Estates Edinburgh

IFAN cash first response to food insecurity leaflet

Cost of living crisis webinar from Sustainable Food Places

Glasgow Eco Trust

Woodlands Community Garden

Urban Roots

St Paul’s Youth Forum

In the first episode of The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast, Thalia speaks to two people who had a key role in creating the Glasgow City Food Plan, Riikka Gonzalez and Jill Muirie. They discuss what the plan is and why it’s necessary, some of the challenges to implementing it, how you can get involved, and their favourite actions of the plan.

Useful links:

The Glasgow City Food Plan

Sign up to Glasgow Food Policy Partnership’s Newsletter here

Glasgow Community Food Network’s Food and Climate Action Project 

Watch a video about the 2021 Chef’s Challenge here

The Glasgow Sustainable Food Directory

If you’d like to get involved with the Good For Glasgow Campaign, please contact [email protected]