This panel will focus on learnings from Stir to Action's project, Pathways to Land: Exploring financing for BPOC farmers to gain land security in England. Our panel will include project partners as well as project participants. It will draw upon ideas and perspectives from BPOC landworkers and community food organisers about the barriers to accessing land and finance for farming they have faced. It will also explore tangible steps that emerged from our two forums…

A practical session for land owners, land managers and project leads on how you can slow the flow across your land cheaply, easily and to benefit your system and communities downstream.

The panel is made up of members of the Access Friendly Farmers and Landowners working group convened by Right to Roam as part of our effort to understand the challenges, risks and opportunities of increased public access to or across farmland. The four panellists farm in different ways, all care deeply about land and nature, and have experience of dealing with the public on land they care for. We’ll discuss some of the frequently raised…

This panel will explore how we can recognize and nurture the innate life force in seed, soil and plants to advance human and planetary health. Panellists will provide perspectives on how growing practices and the consciousness of the farmer can lead to greater resilience, nutrition, and flavour in food. The panel will discuss ways to assess nutrient density, the importance of food vitality and community engagement, and how our relationship with nature nurtures mind, body…

Come and explore collaborative approaches by small-scale upland farmers to deliver at a landscape scale for food and nature as well as climate, flood mitigation and access in England’s Uplands. With facilitation from representatives from farmer clusters, common land projects and landscape recovery projects we invite you to join in, share and learn about how small-scale farmers benefit from working together. Chaired by Julia Aglionby from Our Upland Commons with input from Jane Lane from…

An invitation to youth at ORFC! This interactive roundtable will explore how we can use communications to bring younger generations in urban settings into existing movements — particularly food sovereignty as a roadmap toward environmental justice and collective liberation. Given the widespread confusion and lack of hope, especially in industrial and urban areas across the world, it's crucial for youth and those in urban settings who feel isolated or hopeless to know that Indigenous communities…

Join this action-oriented workshop to explore how members of the UK agroecology movement can cultivate long-term solidarity with farmers and food producers in Palestine who face ongoing violence, murder, aggression and confiscation of their lands at the hands of Israeli occupying forces; a degree of devastation which UN human rights experts have amounted to a genocide. The workshop will begin with pre-recorded messages from farmers bringing in the 2024 olive harvest, followed by an introduction…

This is a workshop for people to reconnect with the land. We begin with honouring the Indigenous people and land we are on. Everyone introduces themselves. Participants share their stories about how their families and ancestors dealt with challenging and difficult systemic situations in their lives. Participants will share oral and written stories that illustrate actions of anti-oppression and justice that are rooted in their ancestral lines, whether genealogical, cultural or other forms that fought…

Current industrial food systems prioritise profit, leave people hungry and damage the ecosystems on which life relies. Food sovereignty and the right to food can be transformational, putting people and ecological resilience, instead of profit, at the centre of food systems. However, it's not a right to just any food, but a right to nutrient-rich food, grown in harmony with the planet and animals, by people who are fairly paid and cared for. This workshop…