Message from the UK Food Sovereignty Movement Gathering Core Group:
We’ve found a great venue for the national food sovereignty gathering in Hebden Bridge. The date has been changed to 23-26 October due to availability. This is a couple of weeks later than we originally planned and we hope that this will still work for everyone.
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CFGN recently went to meet Keats Community Organics in Welling, South London. Jack, Christina and Ed who set up Keats had been involved in ‘Food from the Sky’ where CFGN had held our Spring gathering in 2013.
As Keats was established in April last year we wanted to find out how the new garden was coming on and see if there were ways a network of growers could support the project’s next steps.
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Re-posted from Land Workers’ Alliance website
Join the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) as we celebrate Via Campesina’s International day of Peasant Struggle: Meet Wednesday April 29th, outside the Bury St Edmunds Railway Station, 1pm.
Last year the LWA took our message to DEFRA, this year we are targeting British Sugar PLC to expose the inequality and problems inherent in our industrial food system. Government support of big agri-businesses, like British Sugar PLC, threatens the health of our communities and the quality of our environment. And we’re subsidising exactly the wrong sort of agriculture.
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Re-posted from London Freedom Seed Bank website
We are pleased to announce our upcoming workshops for this spring. These workshops will provide you with the information necessary to start saving seed this year. We will cover choosing which varieties to save, considerations for avoiding cross-pollination, choosing which plants to select, and the practical aspects of saving seed from your plants. Growers and gardeners with no previous experience are welcome.
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