In our interactive, reflective and embodied session, Mama D, Sui Searle and Samson Hart will discuss our relationships to land, belonging, spirituality, resilience and resistance within ourselves and our movements. We look towards understanding land as belonging, sovereignty, homeland, or identity beyond capitalism and we re-imagine co-liberation through land and spiritual practice. We will share our experiences in relation to specific questions, then open these up to wider discussion and reflection.

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?

Agroecology, food sovereignty, climate justice and antipoverty economics aim to value all life by ending power relations, including sexism, racism and every form of discrimination. A women’s movement with a practical perspective on agroecology, includes all who identify as women and/or as antisexist, not only to create spaces free of discrimination but to revalue the 'unseen' work that mainly women and gender marginalised people do. The global economy could not function without this work. Our…

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…

The Wind Blows the Border (Vento na Frontera), Brazil (2022), is a documentary film from directors Marina Weis and Laura Faerman. In the territories where Brazil shares its border with Paraguay, the film narrates the struggle of the Guarani-Kaiowá people for their lands against aggressive land grabbing by Brazilian agribusiness. The documentary follows the lives of two very different women, representatives of two opposing worlds: Guarani-Kaiowá community leader Alenir Aquino Ximenes and Luana Ruiz Silva,…

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…

For the last 10 months, activist, gardener and former monk, Satish Kumar, has led a weekly Friday morning meditation for farmers, food producers and all those working towards a better food and farming system. “Beyond our differences,” he says, “we all share the soil.” This morning, Satish will lead this meditation live from the ORFC at the slightly later time of 8 am. The meditation - intended to strengthen our connection to the land and…

Three legendary activists for farmers’ rights tackle the false hope and real threats of genetic modification, sharing what they have learned and how those lessons can be used in the ongoing fight. The first wave of genetically modified (GMO) crops made false promises to reduce pesticide use and create higher yields and profits for farmers - from cotton farmers in Asia to maize growers in North America. There is very little evidence that this happened…