Over five days in October, Gary Rumbold and Adam Lockyear travelled over 500km from Fowey in Cornwall to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, visiting 10 farms in six counties and exploring the diversity of farming in the region. During the visit they explored the things farmers are doing to step up to the challenge of the climate and ecological emergencies; what inspires them to farm; and their wildlife highlights. Join the duo to share the experiences of…

Would you like to have an informal chat with landowners who have tried different ways of involving more people farming, growing and running other farm-related enterprises on their land?

The poet Trelawney is calling out for readers for a food and farming themed poetry session. Want to share your favourite poet’s work or have your own piece you want to share? Or just turn up to hear some great poems: from odes to the joys of eating together, the rich experience of life working the land, the impact on nature of the industrial food system; to famine and feasting, shopping to cooking.

Immerse yourself in a soundscape curated by the Landworkers' Radio and Farmerama. In this interactive, drop-in session, we invite you to listen to our audio exhibition exploring the topic of land justice, and consider questions and prompts around the room.

Building on the successful launch of the Sustainable Food Trust’s Feeding Britain from the Ground Up report in June, this session will explore the need to speed up the transition to more resilient and regenerative food and farming systems and reduce public confusion about healthy and sustainable diets. The panel will focus on how we can align what we eat with the output of genuinely sustainable farming systems, and explore what’s needed to enable this…

From silver back pumpkin in Hertfordshire to some of the world’s hottest chilli varieties in Dorset, this session will explore growing and marketing crops not usually found in the British context. Head grower at Woodoaks Farm, Rickey has ambitious plans to grow exotic fruit, amaranth, silver back pumpkin, mushrooms and micro greens. His Caribbean heritage and journey through different growing systems has given him interesting insight on what works. We will also hear from Woodoaks…

In a time of multiple food system and societal crises, progressive actors can see years of hard work campaigning, piloting new systems, and researching new policy solutions wiped out instantaneously. Reactionary politics is driving the abandonment and obstruction of long-term planning, in favour of further transfers of wealth to corporate interests. In the meantime, structural problems baked into our food system, and the resulting harms to human and environmental health, continue to exacerbate. Join Feedback…

The session will reflect on two year of the Fringe Farming project, which aims to grow the movement for agroecological food production at city peripheries. The panel will share their experiences and lessons learned in advocating for the importance of market gardens.

Agroecology has reached a tipping point - it is being challenged to be drawn into the mainstream, or remain an outsider movement. Moving from the outside without losing the radical values and vision is a major challenge, and is key to the political, policy and practical implementation of the agroecological vision.