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…
The Co-operative Group wants to sell all of its land to the highest bidder, partly to fund the losses of its appallingly run bank. To make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, they will try and sell to the highest bidder. But this is the biggest land sale in decades: that means over 50,000…
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. …
The Landworkers Alliance of England and Wales Statement on forthcoming negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Begins: We are a coalition of farmers, growers and landworkers representing the interests of small-scale producers across England and Wales. Our livelihoods are wholly dependent upon resilient local food economies and cultures, as opposed to export…