We are having our first AGM on 4th July, so please do contact us if you’d like to attend to find out more about what we do!…Continue reading Biodynamic Land Trust Annual General Meeting 4 July
Connecting with land : Community Land Advisory Service
The Community Land Advisory Service (CLAS) is a really useful advisory service aiming to increase community access to land across the UK, www.commmunitylandadvice.org.uk. The England land advisors are Jade Bashford and Rebecca Marshall on 0117 966 9491. CLAS is a project of the Federation of City Farms and Gardens. CLAS held a ‘Buying Land Workshop’…Continue reading Connecting with land : Community Land Advisory Service
Fermenting a local community investment revolution
Ecodynamic Community Benefit Society launched its founding Share Offer at 2pm on Friday 25th January 2015 at Stroud Brewery. The Offer enabled Ecodynamic to purchase and run a new 55KW Endurance wind turbine near Redruth, Cornwall, and reward investor members with social, environmental and fair financial returns. Any surplus will be reinvested in renewable energy,…Continue reading Fermenting a local community investment revolution
People’s Farm Land Buy Out: Colin Tudge
Colin Tudge writes: Is it silly to contemplate a complete “people’s buy-out” of Britain’s farmland? To envisage that all Britain’s farmland should be held in trust, dedicated in perpetuity to Enlightened Agriculture – farming that is expressly designed to provide everyone with food of the highest quality without wrecking the rest of the world? Even if we conclude (as we could well conclude) that a 100 per cent buy-out would not be sensible (for a whole host of reasons) would it at least be worthwhile to keep the idea in focus?…Continue reading People’s Farm Land Buy Out: Colin Tudge