FoodScape Podcast

11/05/2025

Listen to the latest FoodScape podcast on our edible wild, with lifelong forager Fi Martynoga.

Fi encourages the wild into her garden, where ‘weeds’ and garden plants grow alongside one another and are equally used and appreciated.

Follow our walk around the garden and beyond, and be surprised to learn how much of a feast lies just beyond your doorstep.

Listen on Substack
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Also on Amazon, Apple and Spotify

09/05/2025

📣 New episode out now! 📣

Have a listen on Substack ⬆️ LINK ABOVE ⬆️
Also on Apple, Amazon, Spotify and more.

08/05/2025

Want to know how the FoodScape podcast came about?
This video shows the power of Community Led Local Development in connecting communities to locally produced food and to the diverse history of food in the Scottish Borders..

🎬🎥 Our latest case study is now available to view on our new website!

See how three community groups from across rural and island Scotland supported development of food and drink projects utilising Community Led Local Development (CLLD) funding, part of the The Scottish Government Rural Development Programme.

Learn about:

✅ Abundant Borders who received a grant of £14,750 to set up a local Good Food Partnership , consult communities and produce a series of podcasts

✅ Macaulay College C.I.C – who used grant funding of £15,344 to purchase and install a new polycrub and fencing to support their growing social enterprise

✅ Propagate – used a grant of £10,475 to produce a short film and associated learning resources exploring regenerative farming and sustainable food systems

View the video at: https://tinyurl.com/nescb3ax

With thanks to Inspiring Scotland for producing such a great film!👍

Outer Hebrides Community-Led Local Development Programme Scottish Islands Federation Scottish Borders Council Dumfries and Galloway! Whats Going on ? Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway Women in Agriculture Scotland - Dumfries and Galloway Scottish Islands Team

26/04/2025

📣 NEW EPISODE 📣

How much do you want to be able to buy fresh, local veg?

Hear the perspectives of three market gardeners trying to bring fresh, nutritious and ecologically sound food to their locale.

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Or at Apple, Amazon or Spotify.

16/04/2025

Did you know that eggs poach perfectly when they’re fresh? 🥚🐓

Learn more about good eggs in the recent FoodScape Podcast on local egg production.

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14/04/2025

Everyday, 36 million eggs are enjoyed in breakfasts, sandwiches and baked goods across the UK.
In the recent FoodScape episode, I find out who decides the cost of those eggs, and how farmers make a living from producing such an everyday product.

Guy Lee of Sandystones Farm near St Boswells shares the practicalities and challenges of egg production, and receives some unexpected attention from one of his 8000 hens [👉SWIPE RIGHT TO SEE!]

11/04/2025

📣 NEW EPISODE AVAILABLE 📣

In the UK we consume millions of eggs every day. How are they produced? What do our current welfare standards really mean? And in the face of problems like bird-flu, feed costs, and energy costs, how do producers ensure it makes financial sense for them?

I speak with Sandystones Farm about the business of eggs.

👂🏻listen now!!👂🏻
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You can also listen on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and elsewhere 🥰

02/04/2025

The closure and consolidation of our slaughterhouses is also a centralisation of control within our food system.

Read all about it at FoodscapePodcast.Substack.com

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29/03/2025

“It’s disgraceful that the borders doesn’t have its own slaughterhouse, particularly when we produce some of the best beef and lamb in the country - perhaps in the world.”

- Jonny Williams, Managing Director of Farmstock Scotland.

What is the impact of there being no abattoir in the Scottish Borders?
Abattoirs are closing and consolidating across the the UK which is having a significant effect on the shape and sovereignty of our food systems.

👂🏻 Listen to the latest FoodScape Podcast on Substack, Spotify, Apple and more. 👂🏻

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28/03/2025

📣🐄 New Episode Available 🐄📣

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23/03/2025

Could the Borders have a better food offering?
How good could that be?
And who would it benefit?

Some thoughts on Robin and Alison’s dream of the Borders becoming the Tuscany of Scotland.

Read it now on the Substack
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14/03/2025

Is the Scottish Borders home to the best steak in the world?

📣👂🏻listen to the latest FoodScape episode with Robin and Alison Tuke of Hardiesmill, and hear how they gained international fame as beef producers by harnessing the terroir of the Scottish Borders 👂🏻📣

Available now on Substack ⬆️ link above ⬆️
Apple, Spotify and more…