Stoke Newington Farmers Market, St. Paul’s Church, Stoke Newington High Street, N16 7UY 11am-2.30pm Seed Dating at 1pm– an opportunity to pair up and sow seeds that you love! – – – – – The mild winter is drawing in and as a new spring arrives the Community Food Growers Network is hosting a seed…
MIPIM is the world’s biggest property fair, where our cities and our land are up for sale. It takes place in Cannes, bringing together about 20,000 investors, developers, local authorities, and banks to figure out how to carve up our cities and sell off our land. The companies which attend MIPIM, and our government “representatives”…
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/