Landward

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The BBC Landward team were seen out and about in Moray at the end of September.

They visited Cullen where Nick Nairn was filmed making, what else but ‘Cullen Skink’.

I wonder if he would consider entering the Cullen Skink World Championships?

One of their other stop-offs was the beautiful walled gardens at Gordon Castle.

The Landward team had contacted Moray Food Plus to ask if they could visit them, as they were very interested in finding out more about their food recovery work, as part of an article about food waste. They wanted to speak to Mairi McCallum, project manager and her wonderful team about the work they undertake in Moray.

Moray Food Plus takes quality surplus food from supermarkets and other producers and redistributes it to other organisations. BBC Landward were interested in the journey of the food and where it ended up.

When the team arrived, Moray Food Plus was receiving their delivery from FareShare. Presenter Dougie Vipond helped unload the van, he wanted to be involved. He then assisted with sorting the food into the different crates for the various organisations that were to receive deliveries that day. During his time there he spoke to Julie Ross, the Moray Food Plus development worker responsible for the recovery project, to find out more about where the food comes from and its uses.

Deliveries were next and he followed driver Tony Broadhurst on his rounds, stopping off at The Loft Youth Project in Keith.

Sharon Duncan, project manager at The Loft Youth Project said, “Our youth project receives surplus food on a weekly basis from Moray Food Plus”.

Sarah Cruden, a Moray Food Plus development officer had gone along to Keith to deliver a cooking session using the food recovery delivery with several of the young people from The Loft. This was all filmed for BBC Landward and Sarah said, “the young people were fantastic and made chicken fajitas and plum crumble.”.

“This was a fantastic opportunity for The Loft Youth Project young people to showcase their skills in cooking” said Sharon.