Food Projects

We would like to see a community where everyone can afford to eat good, healthy and sustainable food.

Food and Cooking Classes and Courses

We hold various cooking events, workshops and courses that focus on different themes like local and seasonal food, reducing food waste or improving cooking skills. These include:

• Smart Cooking – making the most of meals and your budget  – learn basic food preparation and cooking skills, get healthy recipes that are simple and low cost to make at home and find out how to improve your household budgeting skills and energy efficiency. We run courses for the public and also deliver to groups and organisations.
• Food Works! – food and horticulture training opportunities giving valuable skills and experience for moving into education, volunteering or employment.
• Local and Seasonal Food Workshops – locally sourced, seasonal food is often more environmentally friendly, fresher and healthier than food from far away places. In the past we have run workshops to inspire people to cook and eat with local and seasonal food.
• Food Waste Workshops – we run food waste workshops as part of our Too good to waste project to give people tips on how to reduce food waste and save money.

Fife Food for Fife Folk

We want to bring more good, local and ethical food to Fife tables. Order a bespoke grocery box every fortnight, filled with your choice of locally-grown, seasonal fruit, veg, herbs, ethically-sourced wholefoods and other essential groceries through our Eco Shop with our Fife Food for Fife Folk project.

A Community Food Hub for Kirkcaldy

We’re developing plans for a Community Food Hub in Kirkcaldy, which will be a place for people to come together to grow, cook, eat and learn. The Food Hub project will be delivered across 2 sites, with a Community Kitchen in Kirkcaldy town centre and a Horticultural Training Centre at Ravenscraig Walled Garden. Find out more on our Community Food Hub page.

Growing Projects

We run two community garden sites, at Ravenscraig Walled Garden and Dunnikier Country Park where we host regular volunteer sessions, training and events, and work with local schools and youth groups.

Ravenscraig Community Orchard and Training Allotment

Ravenscraig Community Orchard is located in the 7-acre Ravenscraig Walled Garden in East Kirkcaldy. The garden is Common Good Land and the site was brought back into use in 2012. Alongside Kirkcaldy Community Gardens and Allotments CIC (which runs 50 individual allotments), Greener Kirkcaldy has developed a Community Orchard, with over 100 fruit trees, a “wild area” set aside for wildlife. We have also recently created a new training garden and room there (part of our Community Food Hub project), which will offer courses, training and volunteer opportunities in gardening and growing your own fruit and vegetables.

Come along to one of our workshops, or sign up to a course and learn a new skill  Here are some examples of events, workshops and courses we run at Ravenscraig Walled Garden:

• Grow Your Own Workshops – to give people the skills and confidence to grow their own food. These include introductory ‘taster’ sessions, half-day workshops and 2-day courses on specific topics
• Summer Open Days to share our produce and inspire visitors to get involved in the project
• Fun and family-friendly events to engage all members of the local community:
  • Apple Day harvest celebrations, with orchard tours, games, apple juicing, recipes and tasting
  • Mid-winter Wassailing events with story-telling, singing and poetry

See upcoming workshops and events on our events page.

We also run weekly volunteer sessions, at which volunteers develop and maintain the site, grow fruit and veg, plant trees and flowers, and make habitats for biodiversity. If you are interested in volunteering with us, you can get more information on our Ravenscraig volunteer page.

Dunnikier Country Park

Dunnikier Country Park is an area of greenspace in the north of Kirkcaldy consisting of semi-natural and landscaped woodland, a golf course, gardens and recreation ground. Greener Kirkcaldy works with volunteers and partners including Fife Council, the park development group, volunteer groups, schools and local businesses, to develop community use of the park and to increase biodiversity.

Our volunteers have developed forest gardens and wild flower meadows, and planted 1000’s of bulbs, seeds and native trees to increase biodiversity. They also help with caring and maintaining plants, bushes and trees, as well as helping to plan future improvements that will benefit people and wildlife.

An August weekend at Ravenscraig Walled Garden

The lack of rain means that the grass is not very thick, but long and straggly, so the team were out last weekend with hand and motor tools making things tidy again.

Last weekend also saw everyone enjoying home made pizzas again.

It looks like some of the plum and cherry trees have been attacked by sawfly, but the Marjorie Seedling Plum is still producing a good crop, as are the hazel trees.

Ravenscraig Walled Garden Open Day

Take a look round Ravenscraig Walled Garden and find out more about what happens at our Community training garden and orchard at the Ravenscraig Walled Garden open day on Sunday 19th August, 11am – 4pm. The community group Kirkcaldy Community Gardens and Allotments, who manage the site, will share their growing experience and give tours of the garden.

We’ll be showing off our new training garden and allotment, running a ‘Plants for Free’ workshop and selling teas, coffees, scones and cakes as part of the day.