A SUCCESSFUL healthy eating social enterprise is bringing our bad habits to book.

Peebles-based You Can Cook has been at the forefront of healthy eating for over a decade.

And now the dedicated chefs and gardeners are bringing their message to library-goers in the region.

As part of their Grow to Eat project, launched in April, directors Bosco Santimano and Iana Bejaniyska have donated a range of books to Peebles and Innerleithen libraries aimed at encouraging healthy and sustainable living in the area.

Bosco told the Peeblesshire News: “This initiative is very much down to the community who informed us about the lack of educational materials and resources on specialized topics like climate change, permaculture, health and nutrition, cooking and growing.

“All donated books will form a legacy of the current project in the local area for years to come and we envisage it being used by the community on a regular basis.”

Grow to Eat is funded by Climate Challenge Fund, and is the continuation of the previous project, Innerleithen Can Grow, which runs in partnership with the school and community volunteers until March.

Mr Santimano added: “At You Can Cook we truly believe that projects like these have a lasting legacy if all the stakeholders are given an opportunity to express and share their ideas, and are given ownership right at the beginning of the process.

The project targets young people, community and volunteers with a goal to creating a powerful educational experience about organic growing and sustainable food supply.

Margaret Menzies, library and information services manager, said: “We would like to thank You Can Cook for their generous donation.

“One of the aims of Live Borders Library Services is to support and encourage people to live healthier lives and having these books available will help us to do that.”

Ewan Jackson, Chief Executive local charity Live Borders, added: “We are delighted that You Can Cook has partnered with Live Borders to provide a lasting legacy to the communities’ in Tweeddale in the form of donating educational and informational resources to the libraries for anyone to access.”