The Co-operative Group wants to sell all of its land to the highest bidder, partly to fund the losses of its appallingly run bank. To make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, they will try and sell to the highest bidder. But this is the biggest land sale in decades: that means over 50,000…
Today members of the Community Food Growers Network joined the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside (ICPPC) in delivering a hamper of “Illegal Foods” to the Polish Embassy in London. They protested to highlight the excessively harsh regulations imposed upon small Polish farmers which effectively prohibit them from selling traditional foods processed on the…
See this report, published on the Land Worker’s Alliance blog, highlighting their experience of attending a protest in Brussels this January against the EU Plant Reproductive Material Law. http://landworkersalliance.org.uk/2014/01/reclaiming-farmers-rights-to-seeds/
28th February: Three Acres and a Cow: A History of Land Rights and Protest in Folk Song and Story. Performance by Keely Mills, Nick Hunt, Robin Grey, Alex Etchart and Rose. Time: 8PM -10:30 PM Location: Grow Heathrow, Vineries Close, Sipson, West Drayton, UB7 0JG. Directions here // 1st March: Grow Heathrow 4th Birthday Party. …