The Urban Agriculture strand of our Food and Climate Action project focuses on 2 main elements:
- supporting and promoting pre-existing urban agriculture sites in Glasgow through our Urban Growing Open Days and;
- the exploration of Ruchill Golf Course as a possible food growing site for Glasgow.
Urban Agriculture is defined as urban or peri-urban growing sites used for the cultivation of food which is distributed at a city-wide level.These sites can be managed by: individuals e.g. back gardens, and allotments plots; communities e.g. community gardens, community orchards & food forests and; businesses or social enterprises e.g. market gardens and other local food producers. All these activities have the potential to contribute to the overall food system, as well as help close the loop of the food system by feeding into local economy, education, and sustainable waste management projects
Our Project Coordinator, Ebany Dohle, is leading up this strand. For more information, contact her on ebany.dohle[at]glasgowfood.net
Our work in Ruchill
Land Needs Survey for Market Gardens and Peri-urban Farming
We are running a short survey to assess the land requirements of individuals, groups or organisations in Glasgow who are interested in accessing land for urban agriculture, as well as those who have land and would like to grant access to it for the purposes of:
- market gardens
- peri-urban farming
- or any type of growing which takes into account wider distribution of produce e.g. gardens or urban farms that grow produce for food pantries, veg box schemes, or produce grown for sale etc.
Examples of urban agriculture include: growing vegetables, flowers, mushrooms, bee keeping, small scale animal grazing etc. We are open to your ideas!
Find Out More
- Blog Post 1: Introduction to Ruchill - What Have We Been Doing?
- Blog Post 2: Women's Safety in Ruchill
- Featured in Stir To Action's piece, From Fairways to Fair Use: Repurposing Golf Courses
- Read this short, concise and clear post about Ruchill golf course from Forgotten Greens or;
- This medium length post with technical information about golf, as well as pictures of the golf course from 2019 form Golf's Missing Links or;
- This longer post with technical information about golf and interesting historical maps and pictures, also from Forgotten Greens