2010 - 2024

Back by popular demand! Join Dr Patrick McManaway as he explores the world of subtle energies in the landscape and recounts stories from working with farmers, growers and landowners across three continents. Patrick works to heal the geopathic stress that has been inflicted on a landscape as a result of historical or environmental trauma. He is able to show how the energies present in a landscape affect the health, fertility and productivity of both crops…

Over the last five years fruit tree worker co-ops have emerged in three of the North’s urban centres: Sheffield, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire. We all have an agro-ecological approach and prioritise work place democracy. We will draw out themes of the challenges faced and what’s worked well. There will be plenty of time to draw in the experience from the room.

Following on from Tell Your Story PART 1: Make Yourself Heard you can choose between one of two smaller, intensive group workshops with the Just Farmers team. This is Workshop 1: Exploring Radio and Sound as a Storytelling Medium with Anna Jones. These sessions are specifically being offered to newer voices in the space to help develop more upcoming land workers as advocates and support those who might not yet be in a position to…

In this session we will consider, together with the audience, what food sovereignty means in a UK context and what the agroecology movement can do towards increasing food sovereignty. Is it realistic or relevant for ordinary people to have agency over where their food comes from? What kinds of control do different people in the UK actually want over their food? Is it the remit of our movement to increase food sovereignty where the choices…

A series of illustrations created as part of ethnographic field work on Detoit’s Urban Farms. Featuring portraits of farmers alongside quotes from conversations and interviews this exhibition centres the voices of BIPOC and Jewish farmers working to reclaim cultural identity and cultivate decolonial land practices. It is a celebration particularly of the incredible black food sovereignty movement in the city which is nurturing abolition, liberation, and self-determination.

The Lost Flock describes a personal journey to save a sub-group of UK’s rarest sheep breed in 2013 and how the closure of the island abattoir led to agroecological farming, involving other farmers in a Community. Jane Cooper of Orkney Boreray (a collective of farmers, craftspeople, and others) will take through the influence of learning about agroecology and the ethos of Colin Tudge, Chris Smaje, and attending ORFC.; now, as farmers, they are working with…

At a time when farmers are increasingly hearing about the benefits of diversification, enterprise stacking and land sharing to secure the future of their farms, we look at three very different farms which have broadened their offering to attract visitors and spread the word about agroecology.

A discussion on using a whole landscape approach to soil fertility. Harnessing the relationships and interactions between trees and crops can help manage organic nitrogen more efficiently, growers can use ‘mobile’ green manures, by harvesting nitrogen rich leaf matter from elsewhere and applying it to cropland in a targeted manner. Much like the fertility-building clovers and vetches long-used by farmers, nitrogen fixing trees and shrubs such as alder and gorse work with bacteria in the…

La Junquera is a major ecosystem restoration and farming project that stretches across thousands of hectares in Spain’s desertifying south. Although Spain is Europe’s most biodiverse country, the south is at the forefront of climate change, aggravated by the effects of intensive horticulture which illegally drain aquifers and destroy biodiversity.
La Junquera is part of a major movement to build a wildlife barrier - through nature restoration projects and farms - to prevent the…