The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode we hear from four of the local businesses featured in the 3rd Edition of the Glasgow Sustainable Food Directory. 

They share why they are passionate about sustainability and serving great food, as well as some of the challenges to making sustainable changes. Listen if you love hearing about delicious food from passionate business owners and chefs.

Useful links: 

The Glasgow Sustainable Food Directory

Slow Food Glasgow

The Ark of Taste

The Good Choice

Le Gelatessa

Made from Grapes

Jeju Baked Goods

In this episode we speak to three people working in food policy on how the change in the UK Government could affect food policy and the changes in food policy they would like to see this new government implement. 

We hear perspectives with a focus on different parts of the UK - Sofia Parente from Sustain, Anna Chworow from Nourish Scotland, and Jill Muirie from Glasgow Centre for Population Health. 

Useful links: 

Nourish on the Right to Food

- Nourish on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

The Trussell Trust’s Guarantee our Essentials Campaign

Write to your MP 

Nourish’s Public Diners Report

For the second part in our tour of Glasgow's East End we take a tour of the Greencity Wholefoods warehouse and hear about their commitment to supplying ethical food. For our final stop we hear all about the sustainable practices at Italian inspired meets Scottish seasonality restaurant Celentano's.

Useful links:

Check out Glasgow Open Doors' other tours

Greencity Wholefoods

Celentano's

In part one of our tour of Glasgow's East End we talk to Alister and Beth at Baltic Street Adventure Playground and Jac from The Wash House Garden. Hear all about the incredible services that Baltic Street provide in one of Glasgow's most deprived areas, and the ways in which The Wash House balance being both a market and community garden.

Useful links:

The Tour on Guidgo

Baltic Street Adventure Playground

The Wash House Garden

In this episode we hear about the Grounds for Recycling Campaign - an initiative during the UCI World Cycling Championships reusing the city's coffee grounds for compost at the Botanic Gardens. The episode's guests are Rebecca Ricketts from the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Hannah George from SWG3, and Ben Strachan from Urb-it.

Useful links:

What is the circular economy?

Grounds for Recycling Participating Venues

SWG3

Urb-it

Production and editing by Thalia Groucott. Music by Oscar Wainwright.

In this episode we hear from Andrew Williams from CEMVO, who are one of Glasgow Food Policy Partnership's Partners.

The discussion covers how race relates to inclusion in the climate sector, global action on climate change, workers rights in the food sector, and the refugee crisis. 

Useful links:

Thalia on Andrew's Disrupting the Doughnut of Doom Podcast

CEMVO

EMEN

Land In Our Names

Open seas

In this episode we take a nation-wide perspective and speak to several Food Partnerships from across Scotland about their focus and how this ties in to Scotland as a Good Food Nation. This kicks off at the Scottish Food Partnerships Gathering back in May.

Useful links:

Nourish Scotland

Granite City Good Food

Highland Good Food Partnership

Sustainable Food Places Scotland

Good Food Nation Act

Other relevant episodes:

Changing Our Food System

The Glasgow City Food Plan

This episode is a spotlight on Kin Kitchen, a community food initiative based in the Southside of Glasgow. We hear from Jess, Kin Kitchen's co-founder, as well as volunteers Chloe, Jaafar, and Roisin.

This episode gives an insight into the processes and considerations of a grassroots, community-focused and led organisations in it's first year of action, and we can't wait to see what else Kin Kitchen get up to.

More from Kin Kitchen here:

Website

Instagram

Facebook

Govanhill Cookery Exchange and Recipe Book

From the 24-30th April is Global Intergenerational Week, and so for this episode we're talking to Bella Kerr from Generations Working Together and PHD researcher at the University of Manchester Zarina Ahmad. Listen to find out why intergenerational connection is so important for the movement to improve our food system, as well as what food can do to bring different generations together.

Useful links:

Generations Working Together

Follow Zarina on LinkedIn

Food For Life Get Togethers

Production and editing by Thalia Groucott and music by Oscar Wainwright.

As part of Food Waste Action Week we spoke to Norma Gray from Zero Waste Scotland and Helen White from WRAP about why reducing food waste is so important and how households can do so. 

Useful links: 

Where to recycle your food waste if you live in a Glasgow Tenement

Zero Waste Scotland

Love Food Hate Waste - Food Waste Action Week

Find all of our resources for Food Waste Action Week at linktr.ee/glasgowfpp

Production and editing by Thalia Groucott and music by Oscar Wainwright