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#69: COP 26: Glasgow growing, participatory action research and migrant worker solidarity
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Photo: Landworkers Alliance Instagram This month, we’re heading to Glasgow to bring you three stories from the fringes of the COP26 conference. In the church halls, green spaces and community…

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#68: Commoners in Cumbria and collective landscape restoration in Spain
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Photo from James Rebanks Instagram This month we begin by hearing from James Rebanks, Cumbrian sheep farmer and bestselling author, about what it means to be a commoner, and his…

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67: Fibre farming, Ugandan permaculture and rain-fed regeneration in Spain
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Photo from YICE Uganda This month we begin with a story from Rosie Bristow, MSc student of Fashion and Textile Management based at Phantassie Organic Farm in Scotland. We learn…

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Landed Part 4: Places of Possibilities
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So if, as it turns out, the family farm is a colonial concept, what are the alternatives? And if we’re to address the tangled mess of challenges we’re faced with…

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Landed Part 3: Colonial Connections
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  In Part 2, farmer’s son Col Gordon explored the ways in which the colonisation of Highland Scotland destroyed a rich pre-colonial culture and relationship to the land. But in…

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Landed Part 2: Re-storying the Landscape
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Over the last 250 years, Gaelic culture in the Highlands of Scotland has experienced what academic Iain MacKinnon refers to as “cultural devastation”. For farmer’s son, Col Gordon, the forced…

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Landed Part 1: The Family Farm
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“What if we’ve been getting this wrong?” Col Gordon is a farmer’s son from the Scottish Highlands. After a decade away, he’s finally returned to the place that he loves:…

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#66: Ecosystem Agriculture, The Probiotic Turn and Regenerative Flower Growing
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Liv Wilson of Wetherly / SSAW Collective. Image Source: Instagram (@_wetherly_) This month we begin by hearing from the ever-inspiring Mimi Casteel – farmer, ecologist, and wine maker. Mimi shares…

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#65: Community farm investment, Naked oat mylk and Palestinian fair trade
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Kindling Farm. Image from @kindlingtrust This month we start with a fond farewell to internationally renowned water specialist Professor Tony Allan, most noted for his pioneering work on the concept…

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#64: Dung beetles, herbal medicine, hydrology and soil carbon
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Rasheeqa Ahmad | Image from Hedge Herbs This month, we begin by hearing from Sally-Ann Spence, an entomologist in Wiltshire, who is passionate about preserving dung beetles as a keystone…

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