We are selected finalist for two categories: Environment and Innovation. The Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards is complement the work of the Highlands and Islands Food & Drink Forum by encouraging food and drink businesses to be innovative, forward thinking and collaborative and by celebrating excellence and achievement. The food and drink industry in the Highlands and Islands generates in excess of £1 billion per annum and supports around 30,000 full time jobs across t

We’re excited by our first Highlands Circular Economy showcase on the way. We have developed an approach to cut food waste by eighty percent and produce from it revenues streams such as gourmet mushrooms, soil conditioner, animal feed and biofuel. The showcase will demonstrate the value of the wasted resources and how a circular economy approach can capture that value again and change the problem of waste into the opportunity of a sustainable enterprise. We aim to create a fr

​ ​Exciting times in October for Aurora, being at part of Zero Waste Exhibition at Scottish Resources 2016 with another 2 circular economy businesses, with Iain Gulland, Chief Executive at Zero Waste Scotland and Roseanna Cunningham the Minister of the Environment, Land Reform and Climate Change (who is now growing our mushrooms) Then immediately afterwards we found ourselves rushing to the airport heading to Estonia for the Climate Launchpad Competition 2016 as per being one