Our Communities, Our Land- No to MIPIM!
The world’s largest property fair MIPIM is coming to the UK 15-17th of October. In response to a call-out for statements of solidarity we have replied:
We the Community Food Growers Network fully support the UK MIPIM protest “Say No to MIPIM: Our communities are not for sale!”…
Family Farmers United vs Agri-Business FC The ‘Food Sovereignty Football Match’ has been called by the Landworkers’ Alliance as part of World Food Day: Via Campesina’s global day of action. Across Europe 20% of farms get 80% of subsidies. In 2013 more than 900 UK based landowners and agri-businesses received more than £150,000 in payments,…
Help Resist Grow Heathrow’s Eviction – Bailiffs first visit: 8am August 15th 2014 On Friday 15th August at 8am, bailiffs will make their first attempt to evict the Grow Heathrow site. Four and a half years after the site was occupied by local residents together with activists, the community garden in the middle of…
In May this year CFGN went to meet KMT who lives and works at ‘May Project Gardens’ in the suburbs of Morden in South London. We’d heard a lot about the project as KMT, a freedom teacher with a background in music, has turned his house and garden into a living permaculture space. May Project…