“Food Growing, Land, and London” by Community Food Growers Network highlights the societal injustices which make food growing in London difficult, and platforms some of the incredible projects who are working the land, for the community against the odds. We need space, we need land, we need resources for our communities to grow. “Food growing…
Written by Rose Ziaei This summer, Community Food Growers Network held an evening of discussion on Gentrification, Food Justice and London for around 35 people at Impact Hub in Brixton. For many of us, reflections around the topic started with our journey to the event. Our journeys involved walking past the Brixton Arches where traders…
Originally published in the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of The Plot Gentrification, airport expansion, luxury flats crushing communities in their construction. Such are the issues that keep so many Londoners up at night, threatening our way of life and our ability to remain in the city and maintain a good quality of life. Here, land is…
Farmers Against Fracking have the full support and solidarity of the Community Food Growers Network. Fracking is incompatible with our vision of a low impact, just society. It is also incompatible of our vision for self reliant, empowered communities, since fracking is so unpopular it often has to be imposed on communities against their will,…