Project Category
Healthy Foods
Project Year - 2025
Seeding sustainable futures: Building food security through community action
Abundant Borders will save and freely share seeds with people who may not be able to afford to buy them and have little or no experience growing food. Seed saving is an ancient practice that preserves biodiversity, builds resilience, and empowers communities.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Scottish Borders orchard research project
The Borders has a rich history of orchards dating back to the establishment of the Border Abbeys. Previous local research has highlighted that old orchards and heritage fruit trees are being lost at a rapid rate but that many new orchards are being established.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Full of Beans: A community film and food project
Take One Action brings communities together to harness the transformative potential of film and storytelling for collective change.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Using compost teas in market gardens to enhance crop health, yield and build healthy soils
Lauriston Farm, run by a workers’ cooperative in North-West Edinburgh, is dedicated to sustainable food production, biodiversity, and community. Building soil health is central to our land stewardship and food production. Chemical fertilisers disrupt the balance of soil health, degrading microbial ecosystems.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Local pear cultivation and consumption
Pear fruits are an important source of nutrition and fibre with diverse forms: culinary, dessert, juice, and perry. Existing supermarket and wholesale supply chains rely almost entirely on imports of three varieties: Conference, Rocca, and Comice du Doyenne.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Project Year - 2024
Cataloguing commons
What are the challenges involved in organising a seed commons and making seeds accessible?
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Our Right to Food Project
The Our Right to Food project is developing ways to measure the progress towards the right to good quality, affordable food in Scotland.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
The Mycorrhizal Market Garden: what can we learn from fungal networks?
What are the structures, communication strategies, relationships, resources, and supports required to build a cooperative of independent growers that is sustainable, effective, and nourishing for those involved?
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Sustainable food procurement for north Edinburgh
The Community Renewal Trust in Edinburgh is part of the R2 network of organisations that collaborate to achieve better outcomes in local communities.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Porridge Power
Porridge Power will take a youth-led, place-based approach to help secondary school students understand and harness the power of the humble porridge oat.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Foods
Project Year - 2023
Ecopoetics Report
Shaping sustainable food futures through education, engagement, and action for a healthy planet.
Public Learning Workshop 2023