Meerkat

  • Bio
  • Based in Glasgow and sometimes Edinburgh I am studying Wildlife conservation as well as being an active members of lots of environmental groups including the Glasgow Growers Collective.
  • Volunteering Interests
  • Gardening, Cooking, Social Centres, Environmental action
  • Likes
  • People and planet
  • Groups

Gardening by the sea

Gardening by the sea Main Image

I spent around ten days this spring in Orkney working on the Edible Egilsay project, and what an amazing time it was! I went to explore sustainable living and the Orkney Islands. I learned so much in such a short space of time, I now feel even more confident in growing a host of vegetables and herbs as well as how to construct a cloche, set up a water system and sustainably catch sea food! It was an amazing and open learning experience which I recount regularly and gave me an insight into how we can live with minimal impact on the planet. I now feel that growing food is the basis for escaping from a fossil-fuel dependant lifestyle and believe more than ever that it is possible for normal people to dramatically reduce energy demands, which is necessary to curb greenhouse gases.