Glasgow launches citywide food growing project
Glasgow is not generally known for its green-fingered achievements, but this may be about to change thanks to their upcoming Glasgow Harvest event on Saturday 28th August and the success citywide food growing project called SAGE (Sow and Grow Everywhere).
The project was launched by an unlikely organisation - the public arts association NVA (an acronym for nacionale vitae activa, or 'the right to influence public affairs'). It works along the same lines as the Glasgow Harvest, a social gardening movement dubbed "A Celebration of Urban Farming" where the city's biggest home-grown meal will be shared.
SAGE, on the other hand, has been running since May 2009, using portable growing containers situated around the area on reclaimed wasteland and public parks to grow fruit and vegetable. The first produce is now ready to harvest, and the event on the 28th seems like the perfect place to unveil them.
Angus Farquhar, the Creative Director of NVA, has said:
As a celebration of city-wide food growing, the organisers also hope that the event and the SAGE project will put Glasgow on the map as a food producing city and promote local food jobs and industries in the area to boot.
The project was launched by an unlikely organisation - the public arts association NVA (an acronym for nacionale vitae activa, or 'the right to influence public affairs'). It works along the same lines as the Glasgow Harvest, a social gardening movement dubbed "A Celebration of Urban Farming" where the city's biggest home-grown meal will be shared.
SAGE, on the other hand, has been running since May 2009, using portable growing containers situated around the area on reclaimed wasteland and public parks to grow fruit and vegetable. The first produce is now ready to harvest, and the event on the 28th seems like the perfect place to unveil them.
Angus Farquhar, the Creative Director of NVA, has said:
"With SAGE, we want to bring people together, celebrate something communal about growing food and sharing it: the Glasgow Harvest is intended to be a very visible, secular, celebration of food growing, and of community."
As a celebration of city-wide food growing, the organisers also hope that the event and the SAGE project will put Glasgow on the map as a food producing city and promote local food jobs and industries in the area to boot.
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