The community meal at KPC continues to run bi-weekly. We aim to provide food that is seasonal, nutritious & delicious. Our meal is run by volunteers, and would not be possible if it wasn’t for them giving up their time & efforts. The cooler months have mean't thick soups, warming chillies, and lots of apple themed desserts, with apples from community orchards, neighbours’ & friends’ trees! In September, we welcomed Rod from Glasgow Apple Pressing to one of our meals, where he delivered an apple juice making workshop – there’s nothing quite like a glass of freshly squeezed apple juice to welcome Autumn. Another highlight was “veg-from-the-garden-soup” – the delicious creation of Rachel, one of our volunteer community chefs, using the community garden harvest. 

Thanks to Rachel, we now have a partnership with Dig in Govan, who are providing our veg delivery. This is an important step in becoming less reliant on (often exploitative & unethical) global supply chains, and supporting a sustainable, local food system. 

The garden group have been meeting every Monday 2-4pm. These sessions can be a variety of open volunteer sessions or focused workshops delivered by external facilitators. All food grown by the group is free to the community to take, as well as being used for the community meal where possible. Read on to find out more about what the group has been up to: 

Glasgow Seed Library workshop 9^th Sept:

We were thrilled to be joined by our friends at Glasgow Seed Library. Meg gave a talk to introduce us to harvesting seeds, before going into the garden to try it ourselves. We learned a few different methods for seed collection, and are delighted to have plenty of seeds to see us through the growing season next year! To learn more about Glasgow Seed Library, visit: Glasgow Seed Library | CCA Glasgow

Mushroom Growing Workshop 27^th Oct:

This was a new venture for the team at KPC, but thankfully we had our wonderful volunteer, Scott, on hand to guide us. Scott has experience running a commercial mushroom farm, and volunteers at the mushroom growing project with the men’s group at Govanhill Baths. We are very lucky to have such an experienced and skilled community around us to grow our garden with! 

If you are interested in growing mushrooms, or organizing a mushroom workshop for your group, you can get in touch with Scott at Scott@mycorevolution.co.uk or on @mycorevolution on socials. 

We used spent oyster mushroom substrate from Glasgow Mushroom Company – who grow mushrooms on a commercial scale – instead of spawn to cut some costs. We layered this a lasagna style bed with straw & cardboard, and covered with an old carpet. We used both a professional mushroom growing bed, very kindly donated by Scott, and an old laundry basket! We have chosen to try 2 methods as an experiment, and to demonstrate that you don’t need a fancy set up to grow food. 

P.S. You can join Glasgow mushroom company’s Compost Club to collect some spent mushroom substate to use as mulch, add to compost heaps or try growing your own mushrooms.

Here’s the link: Compost Club - Mushroom Block Collection