Events
Upcoming events will be advertised on our Instagram, as well as on our monthly newsletter.
The Community Food Growers’ Network holds regular gatherings hosted by different member projects. In addition to these we organise and host training, events and skillshares. Our core group do most of the organising for these, and associate members are invited to suggest topics and themes for upcoming events.
Upcoming Events:
Know Your Rights! 1st June 2-5pm [Online Skill share], Book your free tickets here
BPOC Workers’ Rights, 28th June @ Soanes Centre, booking link coming soon
Anti-Oppression Training, 19th July please fill out this pre-survey form here by 1st June
View our current programme here
Recent Events:
Rooting Disability Justice in Green Spaces, 30th March 2025 [Online Training]
New Year’s Gathering, 1st February 2025, Kingsley Hall, Tower Hamlets
Liberating Land For Collective Care Part 1, 23rd November 2024, Kingsley Hall, Tower Hamlets
CFGN + LWA Resourcing Solidarity Gathering, 21st September 2024, Kingsley Hall, Tower Hamlets
Land Justice Fair, 21st July 2024 @Myatt’s Field Park, Camberwell
Spring Gathering, 6th April 2024 11-4pm @Kingsley Hall, Tower Hamlets, Book here
Organisers meeting, 18th March 2023 3-5pm, @ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank
Hibernation Get together, 27th November 2022 2-4:30pm, @ House of Annetta, E1 6QH
CFGN + LWA South East: Urban – Rural connection gathering, 10th September 2022, @ Ed’s Veg, Liphook
CFGN + LWA South East: AGM + winter gathering, 5th December 2021 1-9pm, @ OrganicLea, Hawkwood Nursery, E4 7UK
CFGN + LWA + Rootz into Food Growing: London Growers Gathering, 19th September 2021 11-4pm, Wolves Lane N22 5JD
Past events
- Land and Liberty: How We Found Our Patch Of Ground - Monday 4th February 2013, Pogo Café
- Freeing Seeds from Corporate Control - Friday 1st March 2013, The Hornbeam
- A Harvest Of Stories - Friday 13th September 2013, Hawkwood Plant Nursey
- Community Food Growers Summer Jamboree - Sunday 15th September 2013, Grow Heathrow
- Three Acres And A Cow - A History Of Land Rights And Protest In Folk Song And Story - Friday 28th February 2014, Grow Heathrow
- Grow Heathrow's 4th Birthday Party - Saturday 1st March 2014, Grow Heathrow
- MIPIM: London not for sale - Thursday 6th March 2014, Grow Heathrow
- Spring Seed Swap - Saturday 8th March 2014, Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market
- Film Screening: ‘Raising Resistance’ - Monday 24th March 2014,
- Pathways to Food Sovereignty - Wednesday 26th March 2014,
- CFGN Spring Gathering - Sunday 6th April 2014,
- Land Workers Allaince Demonstration - Thursday 17th April 2014,
- Peasant Struggles Pub Quiz - Thursday 17th April 2014,
- Agro-Ecology Skill Share: ‘Sustainable Agriculture in Tanzania’ - Sunday 27th April 2014,
- 'Community Food Now!' workshop - Tuesday 17th June 2014,
- John Clare Day- Poetry against Power - Sunday 29th June 2014,
- CFGN Summer Gathering - Sunday 6th July 2014,
- TTIP Day of Action - Saturday 12th July 2014,
- Tomato Harvest Bonanza - Saturday 9th August 2014,
- A Harvest of Stories - Friday 15th August 2014,
- 'Concrete Heartland' Film Screening & Discussion - Thursday 18th September 2014,
- Linking Land & Climate struggles workshop - Friday 10th October 2014,
- Great Seed Festival - Saturday 11th October 2014,
- #blockBoris 'No to MIPIM' demonstration - Wednesday 15th October 2014,
- Food Sovereignty Football - Thursday 16th October 2014,
- Global Justice Now! launch - Saturday 21st February 2015,
- Grow Heathrow 5th Birthday Party - Saturday 28th February 2015, Grow Heathrow
- Seed Swap - Saturday 7th March 2015, Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market
- Community Seed Swap - Saturday 21st March 2015,
- Seed Saving workshop - Sunday 22nd March 2015,
- Three Acres And A Cow, A History Of Land Rights And Protest In Folk Song And Story - Thursday 26th March 2015,
- Dirt! The Movie - Friday 27th March 2015, The Hornbeam
- CFGN Spring Gathering - Saturday 4th April 2015,
- Peasant Struggle Pub Quiz - Thursday 16th April 2015, The Ivy House Co-op Pub, Nunhead
- Farm Hack - Saturday 18th April 2015,
- LWA: Reclaim our Food System - Wednesday 29th April 2015,
- March Against Monsanto - Saturday 23rd May 2015,
- Growers Summer Gathering - Sunday 28th June 2015, Hawkwood, OrganicLea
- Why do you eat? - Tuesday 21st July 2015,
- "Pinch out a living- tips" + 'The Forgiving Earth' film - Thursday 23rd July 2015,
- Culinary Colonialism & Cultural Appropriations - Sunday 26th July 2015,
- Why Organic? - Discussion - Thursday 6th August 2015,
- 'Zapatista!'- Film screening - Monday 17th August 2015,
- LCNC Openhouse - Saturday 12th September 2015,
- London Community Food Map Launch! - Saturday 19th September 2015,
- Farm Hack - Saturday 26th September 2015,
- Grow Heathrow Harvest Festival - Saturday 26th September 2015, Grow Heathrow
- London Not For Sale- Say No to MIPIM - Wednesday 21st October 2015,
- UK Food Sovereignty Gathering - Friday 23rd October 2015,
- Markets campaigns across the UK – sharing experiences and thinking future actions - Monday 25th January 2016,
- Urban Feast - Friday 29th January 2016,
- 'The Future of London's Food System' Panel + Discussion - Thursday 4th February 2016,
- CFGN Winter Gathering - Sunday 7th February 2016,
- People's Food Fair - Saturday 16th April 2016,
- Public Land for Public Good demo - Sunday 17th April 2016,
- CFGN Spring Gathering - Sunday 24th April 2016,
- May Project Gardens Celebration - Saturday 30th April 2016,
- Three Acres + a Cow - Saturday 7th May 2016,
- Radical Herbalism Gathering - Saturday 4th June 2016,
- Open Weekend @ Cranbrook Community Garden - Saturday 18th June 2016,
- Resisting Displacement + Reclaiming Spaces - Saturday 25th June 2016,
- Organiclea Rhubarb Beer Launch + Open day - Sunday 26th June 2016,
- Food in Strood - Saturday 9th July 2016,
- The Spark Festival + CFGN Summer Gathering - Saturday 30th July 2016,