<Reproduced from http://landworkersalliance.org.uk/> Yesterday (April 17th) 100 farmers and growers from the Landworkers’ Alliance travelled to London from around the country to protest outside the head offices of DEFRA and the National Farmers Union. Under the leadership of Owen Patterson over the past two years DEFRA has strengthened its support of large-scale industrial agriculture and…
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…