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…

Understanding the landscapes that we inhabit can be paramount to cultivating healthy relationships with them. A knowledge of land heritage and folklore, how our cultures and nature are married together in mythologies and stories, can foster stronger connections and encourage a deeper sense of place. Underlying the hustle and bustle of the City of Oxford is a wealth of lore and learning, that not only teaches us about this ancient cultural centre, but also the…

Food is a basic need, but seldom a basic policy area. Drawing on agroecology for cohesive national food strategies can provide benefits across all these sectors: supporting public health, environmental sustainability, economic stability, social cohesion, and national security and sovereignty. Local farmers and communities are demonstrating the viability of nature- and climate-friendly small-scale production and supply chains and the positive impact of building relationships back into the food system. At the national scale, this agroecological…

Workshop targeted at smaller intensive growers. The session will lay out what you will require to support applications and give guidance on the information you should be recording from the moment you start your farming enterprise. Many people try to do it themselves or are bumped into an application unprepared when the council visit

The Scottish flax fibre industry was a victim of globalisation in the 19th century. Flax once flourished in the damp soils but its seeds and supply chain have been lost. Join this session to hear from farmers, researchers and citizens, who have teamed up via the Innovative Farmers programme on a mission to find out which modern flax varieties can be scaled up across the country. But this research is more than just a field…

A short session focused on de- mystifying employment rights for land workers, employees, trainees, apprentices, and volunteers. We’ll be explaining minimum wage law, rights for volunteers, accommodation standards and requesting reasonable adjustments, amongst other issues. Run by grassroots trade union Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT), affiliated with the Bakers and Allied Food Workers

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…