Back in 1944, Walter Goldschmidt conducted research which showed a causal relation between industrial agricultural structures and deteriorating community conditions. “As you sow, so you shall reap”, he counselled. Food, and its production, has the potential to make or break connections between people. The Oxford Real Farming Conference is now in its fifth year, and…Continue reading Keeping it Real: Reflections on the Oxford Real Farming Conference January 6-7th 2014
Read his piece in Country Life Magazine…Continue reading Prince Charles’s brilliant summary of the challenges facing farming
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
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
