Growing in Granton

And actually, talking about food, I'm sitting here, there's some amazing smells coming, wafting across the bushes to us from the women's cooking group.

It smells fantastic.

It's going to be delicious.

I'm loving the sound in the background of it as well.

Talking about food and communities, how do you create a balance between...

Creating the food system, particularly I'm thinking really the bakery here, while paying people a real

living wage.

That's the big challenge and it kind of exposes the way the food system works.

Like most of our food is imported from places based on exploiting other people's labour or land and other resources.

parts of the world.

It's sometimes important to go against where the economics try and push you.

Like it's much easier to go to Lidl and buy vegetables than

it

is to grow them, as anyone who's done it will know.

But the reasons for doing it are so many like

we

we need to make sure we're still able to produce food from a community resilience point of view food prices are shooting up at the moment because of wars and other parts of the world and it's actually not not totally reliable that we can always go to the supermarkets and get really cheap food and we need to make sure we've still got the skills to do it we'd like to make all of our bread as available as cheaply as possible in this area and So we're always, always balancing that.

But the things like pay what you can, it works because people understand what we're trying to do and they know us.

It's not just some marketing gimmick or whatever.

It's like to know your local baker who bakes your bread is something that people value and want to support.