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Food on Film Opportunity

APPLICATIONS FOR FOOD ON FILM SCREENINGS NOW OPEN
 
This opportunity from Keep Scotland Beautiful has just opened up for GFAA.  If any plotter is interested in taking this forward, please see Stuart in the first instance.
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Keep Scotland Beautiful is pleased to be able to offer the opportunity to host a film screening through Food on Film.   Thirty successful applicants will receive a funded public screening license for their choice of three films and accompanying support resources.   
Interested applicants are invited to create an event around a film screening to inspire conversations and activity exploring and discovering sustainable food.  The 30 film screening licenses available through Food on Film are for public screenings, which means they must create an opportunity to build community links.   The Sustainable Development Goals are a good starting point to choose a sustainable food theme such as Goal 2 – Zero Hunger or Goal 10 – Reduced Inequalities.
Food on Film is open to community groups, schools, colleges and organisations. There are three films for you to choose from.  Your event must be held by 31st March 2016.
Click here for more information and to apply.   Applications must be received by 24th December 2015.  Successful applicants will be notified by 7th January 2016.
 
 
“ARE WE READY?” TRAINING WITH SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK
This Thursday (3rd December) Keep Scotland Beautiful is hosting Scottish Communities Climate Action Network who are running a ‘Are We Ready’ training.  Participants will learn how to use a community engagement resource that uses the weather to get people thinking about climate change and community resilience; not only to plan for future extreme weather events and other emergencies but also to get people together to think how to build long-term community resilience as we adapt to life without fossil fuels.
The training is free (SCCAN have received funding from Adaptation Scotland to run the workshops) and available to community organisations.  The day will be a ‘train the trainers’ course, so attendees will go away with the tools and knowledge to run activities with their communities.

Bench-marking a new Collaboration

With the help of Stephanie Morrison from RGU, GFAA have been in discussions with HMP Grampian about possible areas of mutual interest and benefit. These discussions have now borne first fruit with the creation of a fine set of benches and footstools built for us from reclaimed timber in the Peterhead workshops.

 Stuart Sitting Pretty

Stuart Sitting Pretty

There are two three-seater and one two-seater bench in the set, matching footrests and a splendid Japanese-style Pergola to match.  Together they will make splendid additions to our site – both decorative and functional.

Thanks also go to Andy from RGU who was good enough to offer his van and time with Stuart to pick up the set from Peterhead and deliver them on site.

Andy - testing for size!

Andy – testing for size!

The items are now housed in the polytunnel awaiting painting.  If any plotter is able to spare some time to help with this please see Stuart in the first instance.

Thanks go again to Stephanie, Andy, and all those at RGU and HMP Grampian for their help in getting this project underway.  We look forward to further developments in the New Year.

 

 

 

New Volunteer: Graham Barron

We are pleased to welcome Graham to our growing band of volunteers on site.  Graham is local to Garthdee and found us through our involvement with ACVO.

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Graham is now a regular on site, having visited a couple of times most weeks for the last couple of months. He has not yet decided if he will want a plot of his own, but Graham is happy to help out with site maintenance, tidying up around the trees, moving wood chips, repairing paths and lately, raking up leaves.

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If you see Graham about on site, please come over and say hello. Or, if you have a project in mind on your plot you would like him to help with, please get in touch.

Soggy Sunday

Today’s Community Sunday was perhaps the wettest on record, but the team stuck valiantly to their tasks of raking leaves from the orchard and filling some of the new potholes before retiring to the Bothy for well deserved coffee and cake.

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Thanks to Alex and Stuart for doing the honours with the photos and to Marion for sharing her excellent birthday cake!

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There is no December date set, but we are expecting to take delivery of 2000 bulbs from the Council, so do watch out for an announcement about their allocation for planting.

Woman’s Land Army Restored

Today’s Community Sunday top task was to move several tons of old wood chips to make room for incoming leaves from the Council.  Big job, so who you gonna’ call?  Well, the New Woman’s Land Army of course.

Left to right: Jen, Lyndsay, Jacqui and Gill

Left to right: Jen, Lyndsay, Jacqui and Gill

Now, we are not saying that a few burly blokes would not have come in handy, but as they were obviously away getting some beers in before the Scotland-Australia Match, the girls did just great.

Er, thanks go to Alison for the 'loan' of the barra'

Er, thanks go to Alison for the ‘loan’ of the barra’.

We finished just in time to head for the bothy and some excellent Kale Pesto flan, and Apple Cake (Gill and Jacqui promise the recipes soon).

 

 

Left to Right, Jacqui (Cream-crackered) Heather, Gill and Marta.

Left to Right, Jacqui (cream-crackered) Heather, Gill and Marta.

Apologies to Gwen and Silvia for failing to get a photo of them, but thanks go to one and all for a truly magnificent effort.

If you missed out this time, put our next Community Sunday date in your diary now – 15 November.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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