Nourish Events Calendar
A free workshop hosted by Pesticide Action Network UK from 12.30 – 15.30 on Saturday 1st July at the Burgh Halls, Linlithgow.
The day will focus on why we need to stop the use of all pesticides (including glyphosate) on streets, parks, playgrounds and other public areas, what the benefits are and how you can organise a successful campaign in the area that you and your children live, work and play in.
PAN UK has been running a Pesticide-Free Towns campaign since July 2015 and are already seeing success with councils turning away from the use of pesticides.
They have developed a range of materials for local activists to use freely to support your campaign. They also have experience of starting, running, growing and winning campaigns, and would like to share those experiences with you.
There will be short presentations from a range of speakers TBC and will be a participatory event for all attending – you will leave ready to make the place that you live in Pesticide-Free.
The Scottish Farm Land Trust and Gail Ross MSP are excited to invite you to ‘WANTED: Land for new farmers’ an event at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 27th September, 6-8pm. We’ll be exploring the potential of a land trust to support new entrants into farming and facilitate socially and environmentally productive agriculture.
Research undertaken this year by Nourish Scotland, as part of a feasibility study for the Scottish Farm Land Trust, found that hundreds of people are actively looking for farmland in Scotland, and are motivated by looking after the environment and developing rural livelihoods. However, access to land is a critical barrier. The Scottish Farm Land Trust aims to acquire farmland and lease it out with secure, affordable tenancies to new entrants to establish agroecological farms.
According to Scotland’s Land Reform Act, we are working for ‘a Scotland where the ownership, management and use of land and buildings contributes to the collective benefit of everybody’. A land trust could help facilitate a transformation of how we use our land, and support farming in Scotland that provides nutritious food for local people, sustains rural communities, contributes to healthy ecosystem and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
On 27th September, we’ll be joined by speakers who have successfully established land trusts in Europe, who will be sharing their wisdom and inspiration. We’ll hear from local producers, outlining how farming can address critical social and environmental challenges. You’ll be able to pick up a copy of our forthcoming report ‘Wanted: Land for New Farmers’ which is the outcome of a feasibility study for the Scottish Farm Land Trust, and find out ways to get involved with making this vision a reality.
2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being.
December 10th, and everyday, Nourish is fighting to ensure the human right to food is woven into the fabric of the Good Food Nation Bill, because we believe everyone has the right to be able to eat well, and that collectively we’re entitled to a fair and sustainable food system. Learn more about Scotland’s human rights progress at today’s Parliament Event.