The demise of a local food movement has sown the seeds for a new organisation to champion community food production.
Fife Diet which became a way of life for people nationwide encouraged followers to eat food made with locally-sourced ingredients.
As it ceases as an organisation this month, Common Good Food is emerging from it.
The founders of the new group three of the Fife Diet team see it as a facilitator for the next stage in Scotland’s local food movement.
The not-for-profit organisation will work with communities to help people grow more food, build skills, develop better equipment and explore food culture using creative arts.
Work planned includes establishing residencies with six new gardens a year and holding Scotland’s first seed saving conference.
It is hoped that crowdfunding will raise £6,000 for the group’s early projects.
Co-founder Fergus Walker said: “Seeds are about power and currently Scotland has no dedicated vegetable seed supplier.
“By holding a conference this autumn we can bring seed savers and activists from across Scotland and beyond to address this.”
The Fife Diet was launched by a handful of people in a bid to prove it was possible to eat an enjoyable diet from food grown and produced close to home. Its membership grew to 6,000 people.
However, after eight years those behind the movement have decided to “end on a high”, claiming to have achieved a reduction of almost 7,000 tonnes of CO2e though members changing how they shop, cook and compost.
Fife Diet founder Mike Small said: “What Fife Diet has achieved is only the beginning. It is now down to each of us to step up the game and come up with new ways to tackle the failings of our current food system, including climate change, obesity and food banks.”
Common Good Food will be based at Cyrenians Farm Community, in West Lothian, and its crowdfunder will run on Indiegogo until Sunday April 26.