What a great bonus to have our annual DG Community Food Network event in the East of the region at the start of Climate week! The event was a gathering of community food projects and supporters of healthy, local and accessible food and we send a huge thank you to everyone who came along and got involved in an inspirational day of community food project sharing of knowledge and making connections!

Discussion topics brought out lots of shared experience and ideas, a full report will be on the DG Community Food Website in the coming weeks. The topics were chosen by community food project and included:

• Eating fruit and vegetables - What are the barriers and how to remove them?
• Dependence on emergency food provision - a better way forward
• Setting up a community food project - tips/ideas/knowledge share
• What would you like from the DGCFN network? Challenges/Barriers

Special thanks to our hosts University of Glasgow for the space and for giving a tour of The Teaching Garden there at the Dumfries campus and sharing the learning from this great project! You can find out more about the Teaching Garden by following them on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/uofgdumfriesgarden/

Also huge thanks to our speakers from Community Food projects in the network Lochmaben Community Gardens and Summerhill Community Centre.

On top of all this we had Senga from D&G Climate Hub there giving a talk and helping with the afternoon workshops …. what a day!

We supplied a delicious healthy lunch catered by Hullabaloo to You who we would really recommend!

Quote from the day:

Just wanted to say a big congrats and thank you for yesterday's event which I very much enjoyed. I found it so inspiring to hear what people are doing and to meet inspirational people making positive changes.

Think that says it nicely!