The pandemic and the climate emergency have highlighted the need to improve food security, reduce food miles and connect people with nature. As a result, the number of community landowners involved in food growing has rocketed in recent years. In this Meet the Pioneers webinar, we'll learn from two community-owned growing projects and from Social… Read More »Meet the Pioneers: Community Growing

Communities have a new right to produce their own land use plans called “Local Place Plans”. Kinning Park Complex and Wester Hailes Community Trust completed some of the first Local Place Plans in 2022. While there are some guides on preparing a local place plan, the community perspective has been absent. Kinning Park Complex and… Read More »Learning from Local Place Plans