CLIMAVORE CIC
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CLIMAVORE CIC
About
CLIMAVORE is a social enterprise that collaborates with local residents, schools, restaurants, and international researchers and activists, to share new approaches to regenerative sea-farming and food waste.
Our mission is to create ways of living on and with the coast as humans change the climate.
Our vision is to empower coastal communities in Skye and Raasay, who are custodians of their land, culture and futures, to review local food systems through CLIMAVORE and drive a just transition in the wake of the climate and biodiversity crises.
We operate around three pillars: Relearning, Regrowing, and Rebuilding.
RELEARNING – Creating skills and education programmes which enable people to redesign their food and food-waste systems. In parallel, assembling memories, recipes, songs, archival photographs and film footage, and capturing coastal experiences through Gaelic place names, folklore and traditions as key knowledge for a shared understanding of what the coast once was and what has the potential to be.
REGROWING – Establishing CLIP (Closed-Loop Intertidal Polyculture) sea orchards, a pilot for a community-owned intertidal farm that uses the coast as a space for sourcing food while cultivating multiple ecologies. Accessible on foot, these are tidal gardens for different species of seaweeds, sea vegetables and bivalves that regenerate ocean water, absorb carbon emissions, contribute to food security, and strengthen local food supply.
REBUILDING – Exploring ways to construct CLIMAVORE by recycling intertidal food waste into a new material that replaces cement and petrochemical resin with fired and crushed seashells collected from CLIMAVORE restaurants.
Our work has been acknowledged by multiple awards, including nominations for the 2021 Turner Prize, Harvard University Wheelwright Prize, the Visible Award, the Special Award at the Future Generation Art Prize. It has featured in dozens of international exhibitions and media.
Region
Highland