The youth branch of the LWA - FLAME - invites you to an intergenerational story sharing space. We will listen and share stories from older and younger generations on building a youth-led movement for agroecology. How can we increase awareness of agroecology and food justice in generations facing a widening disconnect from the land? What techniques can young people learn from older generations, and what can young people teach them?

You will be introduced to, and practice, a problem-solving approach that is both deep and highly practical. It taps straight into intuition, instinct, embodied sense and emotional knowing, and can be applied both to the everyday e.g. ‘How best to describe and advertise for this post I’m recruiting?’ and to deeper questions e.g. ‘What is my life’s purpose?’

This workshop is for all nonmanagement level employees, trainees, freelancers or volunteers in food growing / agroecology / regenerative agriculture / land care sectors. This will be an opportunity to meet and connect with others, share struggles and strategies and find out what the Growers’ Union has been working on over the last year. There will be an opportunity to contribute to our ongoing workers’ enquiry, add a song to the playlist and find out…

Do you talk to plants? We certainly do and some of them literally will not shut up! Come and have a chat with two super stars of the plant world, the Solanacea SistAs. They are ready to bend your ear about all manner of things but they are keen to tell tales of witches, shamans, medicine folk of the globe and their more ethereal practices. Meet the Hot and Sassy Carolina Reaper-Sol and the Lovely…

This session is for anyone interested in finding out more about Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), or anybody who would like to share their experience or knowledge in this area.

Isolated pockets of agroecology are developing in the UK, particularly
in South West England. The area surrounding Dartington, in rural Devon, offers a unique example of an agroecological lighthouse in the making. By lighthouse we refer to a site, or many sites combined, and possibly an entire territory, that is demonstrative as well as practical in terms of commercial farms and farmers applying agroecological principles, and contributing to the local food system.

Join Plantlife for a meadow-making workshop. Participants will learn how to create or restore a wildflower meadow on their land, and learn about the value of meadows and other species-rich grasslands for nature, sustainable farming, carbon storage and climate change resilience.

This is a follow-on session from Thursday’s workshop in the Story Museum’s Magic Common Room. The workshop will be limited to 12 places for those who have attended the previous session on systemic mapping and would like to deepen their understanding.

Mainstream food media is a largely White-controlled and culturally homogenous landscape. This means the accompanying narratives about food culture and justice are shaped by a predominantly White and often male lens. Join us in a conversation with practitioners and funders who are changing this.