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Seeds: locally grown, saved, and freely shared with the community, bring bursting window boxes, biodiverse allotments, full bellies, and community spirit to city streets. Black Rootz and Go Grow With Love, of our London We Feed The UK story, shared thousands of seeds with residents of North London. This vibrant event, full of hope for
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On an autumnal evening, as the sun was setting on the streets of Brighton, a warmly lit gallery overflowed with the smell of incense, the sounds of shared laughter, and vibrant images of proud female farmers. A story, told through photographs and poetry, of three Black women on their journey to connect themselves and those
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From deforestation to over-grazing to chemicals, farming has become associated with environmental degradation rather than solutions. Yet it is here – in the soil, on the moss-clad mounds, amongst the brambled borders – that a love for nature can be stirred into creation. Nestled between the emerald crags of the Brecon Beacons, an intergenerational partnership
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Women of colour produce the majority of food on the planet, yet their labour is consistently unrecognised and undervalued. “We think about farming and we don’t think about that work that is going into 80% of global food supply” – Jyoti Fernandez, The Landworkers’ Alliance Across the UK, women, especially Black and Asian women, are
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Across many Indigenous cultures, women were custodians of seed, farming and food. Today, in Scotland, just 8% of women in agriculture are owners or managers of farms. “You’re wrestling with the title of Farmer’s Wife. There’s not many industries where you’re so quickly demoted and it’s so constant.” – Sophie Gerrard, Photographer However, some incredible
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Crowds gather to celebrate intergenerational nature restoration at Penpont Launched over the summer solstice in June 2024, We Feed The UK’s fourth story celebrates land regeneration in Wales. We welcomed over 500 people to the trailblazing Penpont Estate, where young people are working with wisdom-holders on an intergenerational response to climate breakdown, food insecurity and
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Our We Feed The UK exhibition in Walsall fell in May 2024 at Winterley Lane Allotments, honouring the soil’s healing potential, drawing down carbon and sprouting community. In partnership with Multistory we commissioned photographer Ayesha Jones to document No Diggity Gardens, where Neville Portas and his local community are nurturing soil by growing food then recycling waste. Over
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The doors to our latest We Feed The UK exhibition opened at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow in May 2024. Stunning photography by Sophie Gerrard celebrates the women producing nature-friendly food for Scotland. We’re telling this story because sons inherit Scottish farms 85% of the time, yet over half of the UK’s family farm workers are women. The Scottish government’s
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Intervention and renewal… Photographer Johannes Pretorius reflects on his commission for We Feed The UK, to document three generations of the Robinson family at Strickley Farm in Cumbria. Humans intervene to influence outcomes. Early agrarian societies grew crops in fertile floodplains to increase their harvests. Their actions were just that: interventions. Since the industrial era,
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It’s hard to sum up our feelings about the launch of We Feed The UK, but poet Bohdan Piasecki’s face does a pretty good job. The energy that filled those galleries on a cold February evening is evidence of the magic that happens when unexpected paths cross. It strikes to the very core of emergence and is
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We Feed the World explored the extraordinary stories of 50 small-holder farming and fishing communities around the world thanks to a collaboration with 47 world-class photographers including Rankin, Graciela Iturbide and Martin Parr. With the evolution of this campaign – We Feed The UK – launching in 2024, we wanted to honour farmers globally by
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We had a fantastic start to 2024 at the Oxford Real Farming Conference with a pop up exhibition showcasing a selection of We Feed The UK portraits, taken by photographer Louis Little. We Feed the UK is a radical re-storying of regenerative farmers, food producers and grain rebels; custodians of biocultural diversity across land, sea,