Tag: land rights

Food for all, not for profit: the quest for food sovereignty

by Fanny Malinen This article has been published first on contributoria.com Most of us buy our food in supermarkets: Tesco, Sainsbury’s, ASDA and Morrisons control 75% of the grocery market in the UK. Spanish tomatoes and peppers come wrapped in plastic, so do green beans and fresh herbs from Kenya. Whether we want lemongrass, sushi…

Help Resist Grow Heathrow Eviction- August 15th 2014

  Help Resist Grow Heathrow’s Eviction – Bailiffs first visit: 8am August 15th 2014 On Friday 15th August at 8am, bailiffs will make their first attempt to evict the Grow Heathrow site.  Four and a half years after the site was occupied by local residents together with activists, the community garden in the middle of…

May Project Gardens: living Green in the City

In May this year CFGN went to meet KMT who lives and works at ‘May Project Gardens’ in the suburbs of Morden in South London. We’d heard a lot about the project as KMT, a freedom teacher with a background in music, has turned his house and garden into a living permaculture space. May Project…

Report from ‘Community Food Now!’ workshop at The Spark

On June 17th the UK Food Sovereignty Movement and the Community Food Growers Network teamed up to run a session called ‘Community Food Now! – our land our cities’. With nearly 80% of the UK population living in an urban environment the Food Sovereignty Movement UK and the Community Food Growers Network will explore how…