Estimated Price

£3,800

Summary

Description

The Healthist Town project aims to promote positive health in our community and envirnonment.   The Open Gate Festival is part of our work to encourage people to eat local, real food, to connect people to food sources, to encouage more growing of food and to reduce food waste.  We aim to encourage as mnay local growers and food producers, both commercial famrs and amateur producers, to open their gaes to the pubilc.  The Fesival will run over a week in August.  Ther will also be a number of workshops and talks on throughout the week on topics such as composintg, growing food in a window box, oudoor coooking and cooking with left-overs.  We will also have a community feast using simple, local produce.  Schools, and community groups will be invited to get involved either by visiing gardens or hosting an event or activity.  The Open Gate Festival encrouages and enables people to eat better and more cost effecitvely, undersatnd food and growing and to reduce food waste We are working with Perth and Kinross Council who are working on a wider good food plan.  The Healthiest Town project is helping HIghland Perthsrhie be at the fore-front of the good food and food waste rvolution!  The Open Gate Festival is good for our community, good for local business, good for our health, and good for the planet.