Help grow the Green voice in the Garden of Scotland

East Lothian is known as "the garden of Scotland"; it certainly farms a huge amount of food for the nation’s plates, mainly using industrial methods dependent on chemicals but there is a growing appetite for organic produce, farm shops, farmers’ markets and allotments.

East Lothian is also the powerhouse of Scotland with the Cockenzie coal plant and Torness nuclear station generating half the country’s electricity. Both these facilities are approaching the end of their useful lives but the fossil fuel and nuclear industries are lobbying hard for conversions and extensions.

With issues like these, it’s perhaps no surprise the local branch of the Scottish Green party wants to increase its activities and boost its profile. In previous elections it has come close to getting a councillor elected and during the last Holyrood election East Lothian was the South of Scotland constituency with the highest percentage of Green votes.

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