Guardian Letters, Published on 19 April 2014 Dear Editor, It’s not just Lord Myner’s proposed Co-op Group reforms that may be rejected by the Co-op Group Board, (P2, Guardian., 14.4.2014) but also co-op members’ proposals for community buy outs of the Group’s farms. It is shocking that the Group has ditched its co-op values and…Continue reading Co-op Community Buy Out of Co-op Farms: Guardian Letters 19 April 2014
Building Alliances
There is a tendency, in any circle of people, for the construct of an ‘us’ and ‘them’ delineation. Playground squabbles, family factions and wars are based on this construct. In agricultural groups, these lines may be drawn between biodynamic and organic practitioners, use of hybrid seeds or open pollinated varieties, hand milkers or machine milkers, conventional or unconventional. The list goes on, yet the pattern is the same….Continue reading Building Alliances
Community Supported Agriculture and Community Land Trusts
4 years ago, when the Soil Association began the Making Local Food Work Programme to develop a CSA movement in the UK, there were 3 trading CSAs. There are now 80 trading, with thousands of members and over a hundred schemes in development. Perhaps even more encouragingly, the term and concept has become well known…Continue reading Community Supported Agriculture and Community Land Trusts
Community Investment for Community Supported Agriculture Projects, Biodynamic Farms and Land Trusts, Training Day
The day is aimed at CSAs who need money, communities interested in buying land for farming and biodynamic farmers – particularly relevant for groups incorporated as Industrial and Provident Societies…Continue reading Community Investment for Community Supported Agriculture Projects, Biodynamic Farms and Land Trusts, Training Day