Today members of the Community Food Growers Network joined the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside (ICPPC) in delivering a hamper of “Illegal Foods” to the Polish Embassy in London. They protested to highlight the excessively harsh regulations imposed upon small Polish farmers which effectively prohibit them from selling traditional foods processed on the…
See this report, published on the Land Worker’s Alliance blog, highlighting their experience of attending a protest in Brussels this January against the EU Plant Reproductive Material Law. http://landworkersalliance.org.uk/2014/01/reclaiming-farmers-rights-to-seeds/
28th February: Three Acres and a Cow: A History of Land Rights and Protest in Folk Song and Story. Performance by Keely Mills, Nick Hunt, Robin Grey, Alex Etchart and Rose. Time: 8PM -10:30 PM Location: Grow Heathrow, Vineries Close, Sipson, West Drayton, UB7 0JG. Directions here // 1st March: Grow Heathrow 4th Birthday Party. …
Spring is on its way and with it comes the opportunity to get outdoors, hone your food growing skills and help out at one of the many community food growing spaces in London. At this time of year a number of these projects provide apprenticeship schemes that will enable you to experience a full…