The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast: Recent Episodes
Glasgow Food Policy Partnership
How can community food workers make the services they provide more understanding of the experience of asylum seekers, and more accessible given everyone’s varied cultural and religious food needs? Govan Community Project’s Food for All Group answered these questions by co-creating easy to understand educational resources for those in the sector and running training sessions.
In this podcast episode, some of the group who worked on co-producing the resources share why the resources are needed and how they worked together to create them, some of the struggles experienced as an asylum seeker navigating community food services, and the impact that they hope their work will have.
This is a useful companion listen to using the resources, which can be found on the Dignity in Practice website: https://dignityinpractice.org/going-further
Taste the Place is a Glasgow-wide campaign celebrating Glasgow’s 850th Anniversary and its rich food scene.
In this episode we speak to Rebecca Ricketts from the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce to hear what the campaign is all about. Staff from three of the participating restaurants, Fernanda Kimani from The Calabash, Eddie Kim from Gomo Kimchi, and Yeenzy Lim-Seet from Suissi Vegan Kitchen, tell us about the food they serve and the story of how they got there.
Useful links:
Taste the Place website, Instagram, and Tiktok
The Calabash
Gomo Kimchi
Suissi Vegan Kitchen
In this episode I speak to two organic farmers, Bryce Cunningham, the dairy farmer who founded Mossgiel Dairy in East Ayrshire, and Chris Walton from Peelham Farm, producers of meat and charcuterie products in the Scottish Borders. They discuss how they have adapted their farming practices to meet organic standards and changing customer priorities.
This episode marks the opening of applications to the 4th edition of the Glasgow Sustainable Food Directory. We have a previous episode on some of the venues in the 3rd edition of the directory - available here - and so for this episode we are focusing on sustainable food production.
For this episode we’re meeting at the intersection of veganuary and Burns Night to talk to our guests about vegan haggis.
Featuring Glasgow-based influencer vegan Soph, James Macrae, the head chef at the iconic Stravaigin restaurant, and customers at Dig In Community Greengrocers, discussion ranges from how to make a vegan haggis, some traditional and experimental ways to enjoy haggis, and questions of whether or not to eat vegan whether in your daily life or for traditional meals like a Burns supper.
Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns, read by Ciaran Glavin
Useful links:
Vegan Soph on Instagram, TikTok, and Threads
Stravaigin
Dig In Community Greengrocers
Tuesday 10th December was Human Rights Day, and people who want to see the human rights bill back on the Scottish Government’s agenda marched down the royal mile and demonstrated outside of Holyrood. The right to food, alongside many other rights, was to be included in the bill, and we got a chance to speak to human rights campaigners and those passionate about food justice alike about why they were there, including Lucy Miller from Human Rights Consortium Scotland and Clare MacGillivray from Making Rights Real.
Ahead of the day of action we spoke to the director of Nourish Scotland to hear a little about what the right to food would mean for our food system.
This episode is all about mushrooms, in honour of national mushroom day happening earlier this month. If you’re curious about how to grow gourmet mushrooms in the heart of the city, this is the episode for you, as we’ll hear all about how Glasgow Mushroom Company do this from co-founder Hendrik Mans. We’ll also hear about the relations between mushrooms, plants, and humans from Dr Emily May Armstrong, before hearing more from Hendrik about the different environmental impacts of mushroom growing on a small versus industrial scale.
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
This is the second of two episodes focusing on breastfeeding, and this episode features speakers from Breastfeeding Network UK, Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, and Glasgow Clyde College talking about their advice for new parents and some of the support available for challenges they might experience around breastfeeding.
Useful links:
Glasgow Breastfeeding Network UK Linktree
Parent Club
Maternity Action
In this episode we’re talking about the benefits of breastfeeding for equity, sustainability, and health. This episode isn't just for those who are breastfeeding or soon to be, it's for anyone who is interested in how breastfeeding relates to the wider food system and health.
Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership and Glasgow Clyde College share how they're working to increase the uptake in breastfeeding by new parents.
This episode features PHD researcher Beth Cloughton talking about her research at Baltic Street Adventure Playground and how their work facilitates ethical consumption. Listen on for chat about neoliberalism and its impact on environmental action, the meaningful action around food we can be taking in our own lives, and a critical view on what ethical consumption is.
Useful links:
Baltic Street Adventure Playground
Thinking Through Theory Methodologically
This episode is the first of two episodes exploring research into community food projects in Glasgow. In this episode Dr Helen Traill, Lecturer in Political Economy and Sustainability at the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School, speaks about her recently published book, The Practice of Collective Escape: Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects.
This episode includes discussion of the two community green spaces which form the case studies of the book, the political and social dynamics at play in these spaces, and why they're important.
Useful links:
The Practice of Collective Escape
Evaluation of the Glasgow City Food PlanRhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
Community Gardening as Social Action by Claire Nettle
For this episode we hear all about the benefits of eating more beans and the plans for the new Full of Beans campaign taking place in Glasgow this year.
Contributions from Beans is How, the global campaign to double bean consumption by 2028, the BeanMeals research project which is researching how we can incorporate locally grown beans into our school meals, and Glasgow's very own bean team talking about how the campaign came about, our plans for the next few months, and how you can get involved.
The contributions have been adapted from the Full of Beans launch webinar - if you would prefer to watch the complete version with slides, you can find it here.
Useful links:
Full of Beans Webpage
BeanMeals
Beans is How
Chef's Manifesto
This episode of the podcast is all about the Interfaith Food Justice Network and its members.
It features speakers from SEVA Scotland, Hwupenyu Health and Wellbeing Project, and Stirling Aid discussing interfaith collaboration and knowledge sharing, how belief informs their food work, and the importance of culturally important food.
Useful links:
The Interfaith Food Justice Network
The Interfaith Food Justice Declaration
Hwupenyu Health and Wellbeing Project
SEVA Scotland
Stirling Aid
For this episode we're at Nourish Scotland's Veg Summit, hearing from a range of policymakers, producers, and stakeholders with their thoughts on getting Scotland eating more veg.
If you want to find out why people in Scotland aren't eating more vegetables, especially ones grown here, and some of the ways we can work to change this, then this is the episode for you. From dietary health to public procurement to growing our own, this episode covers it all.
Useful links:
Nourish Scotland
Food Standards Scotland
Kettle Produce
Sustainable Food Places
Argyll and Bute Council
Central and West Integration Network
Scottish Grocers Federation Healthy Living Programme
FEL Scotland
Forth Valley Food Futures
Edinburgh Garden Partners
For this episode we were joined by members of Govan Community Project's Food For All group who shared their work of bringing together the lived experience of asylum seekers using food provision services to inform service delivery and policy. We also heard from a Trustee of Glasgow South East Food Bank and their linkage with The Trussell Trust on their Guarantee Our Essentials Campaign.
Useful links:
Govan Community Project
Glasgow South East FoodbankGuarantee Our Essentials - Sign the Petition
Resources from the Food for All Group
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
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
In this episode we hear about some of the work happening in 2023 to change our food system, spanning from small-scale market gardeners in rural parts of Scotland to the Scottish Government’s Good Food Nation Bill, and all the connectedness in between. We also discuss some of the barriers to tangible change in our food system, like funding cuts to vital grassroots organisations.
Useful links:
The Scottish Food Coalition on Twitter and their Website
Food Train
Propagate
Glenkens Food Hub
Sustainable Food Trust - Feeding Britain from the ground up
Rob Percival’s The Meat Paradox on BBC Sounds
Production and editing by Thalia Groucott, music by Oscar Wainwright.
In this episode we visit Elderpark Community Centre's Christmas Dinner and Locavore's Christmas Market. Listen to find out what people are wishing for this Christmas, the importance of welcoming community spaces, and for discussions about sustainability at Christmas.
You can find Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector's Festive Directory here. It shows all the different community services which will be open throughout the festive period.
Useful links:
Urban Roots
Locavore
Jack Monroe's Nut Roast
Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector's Festive Directory
In this episode we hear all about the Real Living Wage from three Glasgow businesses who are committed to paying it, as well as getting some background from Anna Hirvonen from Living Wage Scotland. Listen to this episode if you're interested in worker's rights and fair pay, or if you're a foodie wanting to hear about three amazing independent businesses in Glasgow - Tantrum Doughnuts, Dear Green Coffee Roasters, and sprigg.
Check out our guests:
Living Wage Scotland
Tantrum Doughnuts
sprigg
Dear Green Coffee
Find out more:
B-corp
Get in touch with Lisa if you're a business wanting to know more about B-Corp via LinkedIn.
Credits:
Produced, recorded, and edited by Thalia Groucott
End music by Oscar Wainwright
In this episode we hear from the staff, volunteers, and community members at Kinning Park Complex Community Kitchen. If you want to hear about the thinking behind the meal, what people like about it, and why community meals are important, this is the episode for you.
You can follow Kinning Park Complex Community Kitchen on Instagram @kinningparkcommunitykitchen or check out the other things going on at Kinning Park Complex on Instagram @kinningparkcomplex or on their website here.
You can contact Jamie at jamie@kinningparkcomplex.org if you're interested in starting your own community meal.
In this bumper episode of The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast, we're joined by 5 different academics researching sustainable food in their fields. We hear from Esther Papies who researches food choices and psychology at the University of Glasgow; Michael MacLeod who conducts food system life cycle analysis at Scotland's Rural College; Ada Garcia who researches nutrition at the University of Glasgow; and Matthew Alexander and Juliette Wilson who research food waste marketing at the University of Strathclyde.
Listen to hear how sustainability informs their work, their current research and findings, and how you can get involved.
If you're interested in taking part in Ada's study into recipes with alternative forms of protein, you can contact her at ada.garcia@glasgow.ac.uk
Production and editing by Thalia Groucott. Music by Oscar Wainright.
In this episode we hear a Glasgow-centric account of the cost of living crisis: how are people in Glasgow being affected by the crisis, and what solutions can we see to the increasing food insecurity?
Useful links:
Independent Food Aid Network
Pollokshields Community Food Point
Scottish Pantry Network
Castlemilk Law Centre
Find Glasgow Food Policy Partnership:
Online
On Facebook
On Instagram
On Twitter
Credits:
Production and editing by Thalia Groucott
Music by Oscar Wainwright
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 thaliag_gcfn@outlook.com