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Arrogant and condescending Unionists
Last week’s Peeblesshire News had two letters one of which from someone wishing to be anonymous, questioning what the SNP have done since coming to power in 2007 for the people of Scotland and the second from a Unionist retired Liberal Democrat ex-councillor of SBC. Both these letters were having a go at Independence supporters.…
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Sustainable farming methods is the best way forward after the pandemic.
This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on our knowledge of where and how our food is produced and the far-reaching consequences of not changing our current commercial food production to a more local and sustainable form of farming. In the last few decades humanities…
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Recycling Tools Project Scuppered Due to local politics!
Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on how a successful reuse project set up under the You Can Grow umbrella was scuppered by nepotism, favouritism and local politics! During the final year of delivering our pioneering growing project “Food for Life” at St. Ronan’s primary school, Innerleithen;…
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Teach them young
This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on growing food as a subject alongside home economics in schools. One thing the Covid-19 pandemic has definitely taught us is that humanity has to get its act together in order to survive on this planet. No more…