by William Ronan If we’re going to grow food for ourselves then one thing is for sure- we’re going to need land to sow, plant, and harvest. Ownership of land and the resulting power it brings has a dark and bloody history from the colonisation of Africa, to the ‘Enclosures Acts’ (1604-1914) in the UK…
As part of the Waltham Forest Council’s Urban Food Growing Festival and the CFGN Spring Events series, the Hornbeam Café kindly hosted two events around the topic of food sovereignty. ‘Raising Resistance’, a documentary about the effects of the spread of GM soy in Paraguay, illustrated how small-scale farmers are pushed off their land and…
Five lessons learned… …from working at Sutton Community Farm by Gavin McGregor (former VegBox Project Assistant at Sutton Community Farm) http://suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk/ I recently left Sutton Community Farm after 16 months – roughly half as a volunteer and later on the staff as VegBox Project Assistant. I had a wonderful time – it was a privilege…
On Saturday 8th of March CFGN brought together a collection of seeds for swapping from community gardens around London, and to run ‘Seed-dating’ where people paired up to sow seeds into small pots together. Stoke Newington farmers market was drenched in early Spring sunshine as we set up the seed stall amongst fresh vegetables, fruits,…