Aviva

We are delighted to let you know that we have been awarded monies from the Aviva Community Fund to support our community growing initiative this year. We couldn’t have done it without all of you who voted for us, so huge thanks for the…

Buchan Development Partnership

We are delighted and would like to thank Buchan Development Partnership for being a supporter of OSF again this year. We will be attending Seedy Sunday at Aden Country Park, Mintlaw on Sunday March 17th and giving away free seed potatoes and free seeds…

We have been featured in the first newsletter from the University of Aberdeen School of Education. This also notes the exciting development of a preview of our educational materials given by Laura Colucci-Gray to teachers in China. SoE Newsletter Issue 1 WEB (Dec18)  

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.