The Dandelion Harvest Festival takes place across Scotland this weekend, Friday 9^th September – Sunday 11^th September, with a number of local Community Harvest events, including:

Falkirk:
- The Helix’s Celebration of Harvest on Saturday 10^th September, 10am – 4pm: celebrating harvests past, present and future, coming together to share the work and produce created throughout the growing season in 2022, and telling stories from historical harvests in Falkirk. There will also be food, art, a culture tent, and the opportunity to share ideas of what harvest means to us in the present, and imagining what it might look like in the future.
- Rainbow Muslim Women’s Group “More Than Just Vegetables” Harvest Festival on Saturday 10^th September, 11am – 1pm: celebrating growing, food, music, culture and community, with Arabic dabka and Scottish dance, games and crafting sessions for children, and food made with the Group’s vegetables and herbs.
- Coo Park AFC’s Harvest Festival on Saturday 10^th September, 12pm – 4pm: a celebration of their potato, carrot and onion harvest, grown throughout the year by families and young people in the community, plus live entertainment, local crafts, and the unveiling of their Dandelion Mural.
- Tidy Clean and Green’s Harvest event on Saturday 10^th September, 12pm – 2pm: a community gathering with vegetable-based food, music and mural sign-board painting for the children, which will act as a permanent reminder of the Dandelion growing season.
Stirling:
- Bannockburn House’s Harvest Fayre, Saturday 10^th September – Sunday 11^th September, 12pm – 4pm: a free weekend of food, music, dance and arts held in the House’s gardens. There will be rustic pizzas, free dance and yoga workshops throughout the weekend, as well as performers, the opportunity to get involved in Bannockburn House’s art project, and a food drive to support the work of the Ladies of the Rock and their food larder.
- HSTAR Scotland’s Multicultural Harvest Celebration and Family Day on Saturday 10^th September, 4pm – 7pm: celebrating togetherness and Mother Nature, all guests will be invited to share bread and hear about the role of bread across the world. There will also be a free mental health wellbeing clinic run by HSTAR’s therapists and service providers, plus stalls with health and homemade food, and free activities for children (including face painting, henna tattoos, a bouncy castle, herb seeding and art sessions).

Dandelion’s Harvest aims to “bring people together for community meals made from food grown in that community or sourced locally, live music and long conversations, swapping stories and sharing produce”. It is designed as a time to celebrate a year of growing, and plan for the next.

For further information, please visit the Dandelion website.