In March CFGN highlighted the threat of the EU plant reproductive material debates being drawn into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free-trade talks between the US and the EU. Read below for more info and a call-out to stop the decisions of TTIP on how we swap seeds and the corporate power grab…
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…
On Saturday 8th of March CFGN brought together a collection of seeds for swapping from community gardens around London, and to run ‘Seed-dating’ where people paired up to sow seeds into small pots together. Stoke Newington farmers market was drenched in early Spring sunshine as we set up the seed stall amongst fresh vegetables, fruits,…
Grow Heathrow, the squatted community garden by Heathrow airport, celebrated it’s 4th Birthday on Saturday the 1st of March. People came from Bristol, Cambridge and France to kick off the celebrations with ‘Three Acres and a Cow’ on the Friday evening- a people’s history of Britain through folk songs, stories and poems connecting The Norman…