Harvest

Dandelion culminated with over 500 Harvest events, in the largest ever creative celebration of Harvest in communities right across Scotland.

Explore The Town is the Menu

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

Food innovator Simon Preston has worked with a network of Unexpected Garden’s over the arc of the growing season to explore and develop a menu that truly represents them. Using local produce and produce grown within the gardens as the basis and the stories and memories of local people.

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Harvest Gallery

A photo of a garden overflowing with growth. In the foreground are harvested crops on a wood pallet. Piles of beetroot compete for space amongst hoards of kale leaves, bright red tomaties, beans and thick cucumbers.

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A photo of a garden overflowing with growth. In the foreground are harvested crops on a wood pallet. Piles of beets, lettuce, kohl rabbi and beans.

A person in a striped top, holding a pitchfork and smiling softly at the camera. There is a wall of greenery in the background.

A person with long hair and glasses is watering plants, using a watering can, amongst raised beds in a garden. They are smiling at the camera. The water is glistening in the sunlight.

Six people are on a stage in a greenhouse decorated with bunting. A girl is talking into the microphone and the rest are smiling. A crowd of people are sat below the stage.

A sign on a fence reads 'Dandelion'. Bunting is strung up above a garden patch in the foreground and there's a blue sky.

A closeup of someone's hands. They are putting colourful food in a takeaway food tray made out of brown, recycled cardboard.

An audience are gathered on a green hill in the sunshine. They are all sitting down looking away from the camera towards a performance.

People sitting around a table with food. One person with a bright smile is turned towards the camera.

A green card lying on a hardwood table reads: 'Harvest Toast: Here's to the harvest; To the food on our plate; To the soil that it came from; And a world without hate.

A group of people are standing in a garden. There are orange flowers in the foreground.

Bread on a table surrounded by greenery. Two brown bottles containing cordial are on the side.

A wall mural in a graphic design with roses. A text reads: Everyone's Welcome.

FRIDAY 9 – SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2022
ACROSS SCOTLAND

From April 2022, we invited everyone to sow and grow with us. At the end of the growing season, we then invited everyone to come together and share at Harvest with hundreds of events that took place in our Unexpected Gardens, schools and community spaces across the country.

The sharing of food to mark the end of the growing season is marked in different ways around the world. Dandelion Harvest brought people together for community meals made from food grown in that community or sourced locally, live music, long conversations, swapping stories and sharing produce grown. It was a moment to mark a year of growing – and plan for the next.

You can discover the Harvests that took place on our digital map. We also invited people to come together with friends, family, colleagues and community to host their own homegrown Harvests. Check out the resources on our Host a Harvest page.