Soil scientist, Dr. Karen Vancampenhout, tells us we need to stop thinking about soil as ‘brown stuff’. Although many of us engage with soil on a daily basis, sometimes we forget how important it is to stop for a moment and really appreciate its beauty. Participants will be invited to explore their personal relationship with soil, using mindful and sensory engagement, and considering how we connect with the systems underfoot that underpin and anchor our…

Other species are an essential workforce in the ongoing regulation of the Earth's global climate and regional weather systems. Plants, microbes, fungi, insects, and animals all have a role to play in local and global temperature regulation, cloud formation, rainfall, wind patterns, and the prevention of flooding, drought, and wildfires. Humans have overlooked this workforce in our historical land management, which has intensified climate change and its local effects. It's time to recognize that we…

Farmers relying on ‘subtle energy systems’ for farm and livestock health, such as bio-energetic, biodynamic, homeopathic, radionic and other resonance systems, report a corresponding amplification of the health and vitality of the whole farm. This session shares the experiences of farmers achieving measurable results with such systems and explores the questions this raises.

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?

An opportunity to take a little time to give back to the land which sustains us all. Through ceremony, song and story we will create an offering of beauty for the land in Oxford, for all that is held and sustained in her loving embrace. A moment to step outside our human concerns and remember that all that we have and all that we are comes from the earth.

We explore, through a sensory workshop, cycles of historical trauma embedded in the soil and reference narratives of global dispossessions harking back to early agricultural practice. Soil is ground to massacres, factory poisons, the site of struggles for survival. It remembers and re-members. Composting is degradation reparation: for soils, for damaged earth and for social fabrics. What makes good compost? Can we re-embody life in ways that can heal damaged ecologies? What is the place…