OSF Garden Schools

With the new year comes some new exciting developments for our programme. First of all, we have changed its name to OSF Garden Schools. This is to reflect our concept of Cultivating Education, with the aim that every school should be a Garden School,…

Nice to be included in this quarter’s Green Times with photos from the EcoCity Awards. Also some information about Climate Week North East 2019 which we are taking part in with stalls and talks – details to follow in the new year. https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2018-12/GREEN%20TIMES%20WINTER%202018_0.pdf

We are delighted to have been told today that we are a finalist in the Health and Wellbeing category for the Aviva Community Fund this year. We couldn’t have done this without the hundreds of votes we received, so thanks to all of you…

We are delighted and humbled to have been awarded the Sustainable Food EcoCity Award in Aberdeen for our OSF School Gardens and Seed Potato projects.

Please vote for us!

We are taking part in the Aviva Community Fund and are asking you to register and vote for our project. It is only by being successful in funding applications such as these that we can keep our project going, and your support would be…

Got this message from OSF stalwart Adrian about his Lady Balfour seed potatoes. Amazing! 12 lbs of potatoes off a single One Seed Lady Balfour seed potato! Grown on the allotment where there had been a midden that I’d had manure in for a…

Thanks to everyone who we spoke to at the George Street market today. Pleasure to share a stall with Craig from Sneap and TAMS and to be able to give some excess potatoes and apples to CFINE for the foodbank.

We got a message from our good friend Sabrina Tuscany about her crops: We have some Red Emmalies & a few Caras we just harvested. Maiya Meerkat harvested some Violettas on August 21st but the crop was so tiny, she ate them all herself….

Mintlaw Academy

Donna from Mintlaw Academy got in touch to tell us that her group harvested their potatoes and decided to donate them to the residents of Abbey Court, a sheltered housing complex in the town. Here is Mathew delivering them to the cook there who…

OSF on BBC Landward

It was a pleasure to take part on BBC Scotland’s Landward with the pupils of Woodside Primary. They talked really well about the garden and fruit & veg they had grown, and showed off their cooking skills. Who would have thought that our OSF…