Barriers to eating locally grown veg

Release Date: Wednesday 17 June 2026

Rattry Community Garden was delighted to receive £4,680 funding from The Williamson Trust and the Royal Society of Edinburgh as part of their Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Catalyst award.

The funding will be used to conduct a survey to identify and overcome the barriers to choosing to eat locally grown vegetables in Blairgowrie & Rattray. The project will run from May 2026 to May 2027 and will include the following steps:

• Formalise and agree objectives
• Develop and share a survey
• Engage the community over the summer to discuss and complete the survey
• Publish and discuss the survey in the Hub Magazine
• Capture the survey comments and analyse
• Publish results
• Plan the next step which is planting the vegetables people would like

Scan the QR Code or click here to access the survey

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