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If you are a local food group, a charity or a not for profit organisation or a Soil Association licensee and would like your food or farming related event, activity or job to be advertised here please contact jwilson@soilassociation.org.
Please click on the links below to find out more:
Organic Fortnight
3-17 September 2010 Choose organic everyday
Soil Association Organic Fortnight, is the UK’s biggest celebration of all things organic. This year we are encouraging you to try something organic everyday. Get involved during the fortnight and discover why organic is good for your well-being and your planet, is kind to animals and wildlife and allows us make a big difference - simply through the way we shop.
Farm visits
Visit one of the seven organic farms in Scotland that are part of the Soil Association open farm network. Please refer to the following section on our old website while we update this page
Food events and festivals
Soil Association Scotland will not be holding an organic festival this year but listed below are some other great food events going on around Scotland.
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
6-7 August 2010
Belladrum Estate, by Beauly, Inverness-shire
Music comes from over 90 acts across five stages featuring locally and internationally renowned artists and favouring a lo-fi approach.
Scottish food & drink fortnight
4-19 September 2010
This foodies’ delight unites people from all walks of life to celebrate and promote Scotland’s larder.
ScotFest 2010
19 September 2010
Cochrane Park, Alva
A one day festival, held in Alva, Central Scotland, to highlight just some of the amazing food and drink produced in Scotland as well as celebrating a range of talented designers within Arts and Design.
Taste of Edinburgh
May 2011, Edinburgh
Taste of Grampian
June 2011, Thainstone Centre, Inverurie
Discover and taste the wide variety of Grampian’s food and drink.
Royal Highland Show
June 2011
Come and visit the Soil Association’s marquee at Scotland’s biggest agricultural show.
Big Tent Festival
July 2011
Falkland, Fife
Scotland’s largest eco festival.
Soil Association Seminars for Farmers and Growers
Courses
Home smoking course at Bluebell Croft
2 &3 October 2010
13 &14 November 2010
Strontian, Ardnamurchan
The smoking course covers all the basics of home-smoking from building the smoker and generating the right kind of smoke to brining and curing fish and meat, turning it into succulent smoked food and then, most importantly, eating it!
Job Opportunities