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In 2022, #anythinggrows.
You're invited to sow, grow and share, food, knowledge & ideas with us.
Commissioned by EventScotland. Part of @unboxed2022

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This St Andrew’s Day we are celebrating the rich and diverse food Scotland grows locally every year. 🌿

Throughout Dandelion we have been encouraging people to Sow, Grow and Share, and today is the perfect opportunity to eat local Scottish produce. Why not raise a glass and share it with those around you?

#ScotlandisNow #StAndrewsDay #AnythingGrows

@scotlandisnow

📷 @eoin_carey @rbuchananphoto @bethchalmers__ by @dandelionscot

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This was Dandelion 2022!

Since April, over 589,000 people took part in our Sow Grow Share season of events and activities all across Scotland.

From working with our partners to turn unused land into 12 Unexpected Gardens that grew food and hosted over 400 free events in their communities, plus 1 Floating Garden that toured the @scottishcanals Forth and Clyde Canal, to welcoming almost 67,000 people to our Dandelion Festivals in Glasgow and Inverness, and giving away 80,000 free edible plants grown by @srucofficial at our Free for Alls, it’s been a busy year.

Our Cubes of Perpetual Light were seen by 96,000 people on their journey from the island of Heisgeir to the mainland, to schools, as striking installations and on an epic bike tour, to 17 urban and rural locations across Scotland.

Alongside @ksbscotland we worked with 468 schools to help 89,000 school children grow 280,000 tatties using 2,000 tonnes of specially-made growing mix while they learned about the growing and cultural traditions of our past and the technologies of the future. The culmination was the largest-ever creative celebration of Harvest staged across Scotland, with over 500 Dandelion Harvest events bringing communities together for shared meals, ceilidhs, music and more.

It’s been an incredible year. Thank you for coming with us on this journey so far.

#AnythingGrows

Dandelion is commissioned by @event_scotland and funded via the Scottish Government, Dandelion is Scotland’s contribution to @unboxed2022: Creativity in the UK.

Film Music: @rossandalimusic Trio – Kings
Film footage courtesy of: Urbancroft Films, New Waverley Films, QTV, Cameron McKay, Conor Reilly, Lewis Raeburn, Beth Chalmers, Gregor Anderson & Dumi Visuals by @dandelionscot

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✨ After playing their debut gig at #DandelionFestival Glasgow this summer, @hen_hoose are curating this Sunday night at @ptbopoetry in Edinburgh. Head along for a genre-defying, lyrically voracious and beat-pounding evening of music and poetry! ✨

Get your tickets at @ptbopoetry

Hen Hoose Collective is a group of female and non-binary musicians and producers who collaborate in creating genre-defying, lyrically voracious and beat-pounding music. Established by Tamara Schlesinger (MALKA), the collective find fusion across electro, pop, R&B, indie, folk, and all the spaces in between. by @dandelionscot

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🎉 Opening today! 🎉

A new exhibition from our partners @taigh_chearsabhagh on North Uist celebrating their work with Dandelion. Across the growing season artists have been working with islanders from all walks of life to create pieces that linked people and the land while celebrating local communities. Running until 26th November.

🌿🥳🎻 The community will also come together on the 25th November to celebrate the Dandelion autumn harvest, island-style, with a ceilidh dance on North Uist! Why not join them! With music from musician in residence, Duncan MacLeod, plus leading Uist band, Beinn Lee. 🌿🥳🎻

👉👉 Book your free tickets here
https://www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org/events/ceilidh-foghair/ by @dandelionscot

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Full menus released! What would your town - or street, school, or community - look like on a plate?

Food innovator Simon Preston worked with our network of Unexpected Gardens to explore and develop a menu that truly represents them. The Town is the Menu invited each place to celebrate its value and uniqueness by creating a signature dish or menu inspired by their local area, community and everyone in it. Discover the full menus on our website. by @dandelionscot

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✨🍃🎻 Did you attend one of our Dandelion Festivals in Glasgow or Inverness this year? We want to hear from you! ✨🍃🎻

Help us plan for future projects and create events and experiences that are memorable, enjoyable, and sustainable. 😍😍

Have your say by filling in the survey below before Sunday 6th Nov! Link in our bio!

📷 @eoin_carey @gaelleberi by @dandelionscot

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#AnythingGrows with Dandelion – Dandelion Harvest

Over the past week we've been looking back on all that went on this growing season. From planting and growing to dancing, cooking, and sharing, we reflect on the last season and look forward to next year!

The culmination of the growing season was Dandelion Harvest where over 500 schools, community groups across Scotland, our Unexpected Gardens, and many individuals came together to all that had been grown over the season, including, food, friendships, and community spirit. The moment was marked with long table feasts, dancing, music, conversation, workshops, and a whole host of original and local traditions.

Thanks for following along with our Dandelion story from Heisgeir to Harvest and now it is time for us all to look forward to the next growing season!

📷 @eoin_carey @rbuchananphoto by @dandelionscot

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🌿✨ #AnythingGrows with Dandelion – Dandelion Festivals 🌿✨

We started and ended the summer with two major three-day Festival spectaculars of live music, performances, talks, workshops and food in Glasgow and Inverness. Bringing together all the many strands of Dandelion, these festivals were designed to open conversations, provide a space to share, and inspire the public to think about sustainability, the climate emergency and the food crisis in a proactive way, and to respond with collective action. With a soundtrack of live music from artists from across Scotland and the world, our Dandelion Festivals brought people together in a moment Scotland needed.

This week we are looking back on all that has happened this growing season. From planting and growing to dancing, cooking, and sharing, we reflect on the last season and look forward to next year!

📷 @eoin_carey @gaelleberi @dumivisuals by @dandelionscot

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🌿💡 #AnythingGrows with Dandelion – Cubes of Perpetual Light 🌿💡

Our Cubes of Perpetual Light; part artwork, part laboratory and part vertical farms, have been all across the country this year. The cubes have been taken to schools, Unexpected Gardens, and became central to our Dandelion Festivals as part of a dramatic, living stage. Installations were created from them and they travelled Scotland on an epic bike tour reaching some of the most remote and highly populated places in the country. The Grow Cubes have been central to Dandelion and this innovative way of growing has been able to start conversations across the country.

This week we are we are looking back on all that has happened this growing season. From planting and growing to dancing, cooking, and sharing, we reflect on the last season and look forward to next year!

📷 @[17841400035015671:@acawleyphoto] @[17841409133313757:@mcateerphoto] @[17841400268325672:@gaelleberi] by @dandelionscot

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#AnythingGrows with Dandelion – Unexpected Gardens

This week we are we are looking back on all that has happened this growing season. From planting and growing to dancing, cooking, and sharing, we reflect on the last season and look forward to next year!

Plants and food have been growing and flourishing in the most unlikely of places since the beginning of the season. With 13 Unexpected Gardens springing up all around the country including one floating garden, Dandelion, and our many partner organisations, have been able to spread the message to Sow, Grow and Share. Through a wide-ranging, and place-focused programme of events supported by an emerging creative producer and musicians in residence, these unused bits of land have become safe, beautiful, and open spaces for their local communities. All these activities were undertaken, leading up to Harvest celebrations throughout September, sharing food, music, conversation, thoughts and ideas.

Thank you to all of our partners!

@alchemyfilmandarts @northedinarts @creative_dundee @dundeeuni @falkirk.council @feisrois @findhornbayarts @galgael @thelevenfife @lythartscentre @inverclydeshedder @rigartsgreenock @scottishcanals @stovenetwork @taigh_chearsabhagh @tenementveg @onfife_cultural_trust Lauriston Agroecolgy Farm, and Falkirk Community Trust by @dandelionscot

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#AnythingGrows with Dandelion – Schools

Young people and schools across the country have spent this year growing tatties, experimenting with their very own Grow Cubes and learning about the traditions and history of growing in Scotland. Dandelion sent over 1,500 tonnes of special growing medium to 468 schools for young people to take home and grow their potatoes in, everything from pots and pans to window boxes and bags for life. We loved seeing all the pictures of everything that had been going on especially when it all came together for hundreds of school harvest celebrations in September!

This week we are we are looking back on all that has happened this growing season. From planting and growing to dancing, cooking, and sharing, we reflect on the last season and look forward to next year!

📸 @eoin_carey by @dandelionscot

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🌿 #AnythingGrows with Dandelion – Free for Alls 🌿

After leaving Heisgeir, we travelled to eleven towns and cities around Scotland, holding Free for Alls; our mini-festivals of growing. With everything from music to advice on how to get started, we began the season inspiring people to have a grow! We gave away thousands of free plants and began our Dandelion journey as small seeds that would soon flourish into food to share.

This week we are we are looking back on all that has happened this growing season. From planting and growing to dancing, cooking, and sharing, we reflect on the last season and look forward to next year!

📸 @eoin_carey by @dandelionscot

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