When Vanessa from a Glasgow based CIC called Gathering Ground approached Greencity to request a cash donation towards a community meal she was planning, we thought we could go one better than that and we offered her this month’s entire donation budget of £500 worth of free, healthy food. Her idea wa
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Posted: April 23, 2024
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Posted: February 05, 2024
We like to think we have our fingers on the pulse when it comes to providing you with the best in high-quality, low-cost nutritious ingredients and when it comes to beans, pulses and a whole array of dried legumes, we’ve got you covered, in fact you might even say we’ve got a favalanche of options! Read More
Posted: January 29, 2024V for Life is a charity very close to our hearts, as it helps elderly vegetarians and vegans to life a life their later years comfortably holding onto their principles and the belief that animals are friends not food! We chose V for Life to be recipients of our January donation of healthy food and we
Posted: January 09, 2024We discovered the Bold Bean Co in the middle of last year and what a hit they have been with Greencity customers and members too! They produce premium, heirloom beans which are cooked slowly in small batches and poured into glass jars. Unlike supermarket canned beans which are boiled rapidly, this slow
Posted: December 11, 2023As part of our plan to inspire you with some plant-based interpretations of Christmas classics- we asked Greencity’s very own star-baker Leigh to provide us with a winning recipe for a show stopping Christmas Cake. And believe us, she did not disappoint! Unlike a Christmas pudding which might require f
Posted: December 05, 2023For this month’s recipe we asked our friend (and long serving ex-Greencity member) Billy Steele to let us in one some of his vegan cooking secrets! Billy serves up delicious food, coffee and cakes from Meadow Road in Partick, and we’re always blown away by his mastery of homemade vegan meat alternatives. Her
Posted: November 27, 2023Liz Grieve previously ran a very popular tearoom which was supplied by none other than Greencity. Although the tearoom is no longer running Liz has been keeping very busy indeed. She runs a not for profit organisation called Doughlicious which embraces the slow food movement and empowers people to bake
Posted: November 06, 2023We’re always on the lookout for worthy recipients of our donation of free, healthy food. The Crunchy Carrot have long been customers and friends of Greencity and when their community meals scheme was brought to our attention, we were delighted to be able to offer a donation to them. Their Development O
Posted: October 10, 2023We had been looking for an Edinburgh based project to receive our healthy food donation when we came across B Healthy Together and they could not align more perfectly with our ideals. We love the work they do and were delighted to send some healthy food their way! We asked Rebecca to tell us a bit more
Posted: August 28, 2023The Garnethill Community Meal was suggested to Greencity as a potential recipient of our monthly charitable donation. We were so impressed with the work they do right in the heart of the city we were more than happy to provide them with a chunk of healthy wholefoods to help support their weekly Community