Companies and individuals are increasingly seeking to buy land in Scotland to benefit from its ‘offsetting’ potential, while farmers and landowners are being asked to increase the positive environmental impact of land use. The Scottish government was concerned with the social and economic impacts on rural people of changes in land use and tenure, so
Join us for an exciting day of hand spinning natural fibers and community screening premiere of Black Sheep Farm at the Concordia Greenhouse in Montreal, QC, Canada. Guided by textile artists Pramila Choudhary and Vanessa Randall, we will be creating yarn as we play with hand spinning natural fibers and screening the premiere of short
Sowing seeds of solidarity: A learning series to support land and food sovereignty in Palestine Please join us for a learning series to follow up on the resolution passed at convention in support of a ceasefire and a just and lasting peace in Palestine. The teach-ins will feature farmers and advocates offering on-the-ground perspectives on the
What do Indigenous perspectives tell us about interlocking Earth crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and food injustice, and ways to respond to these? How can work on climate, food and sustainability center Indigenous knowledges in ways that foreground Indigenous peoples' decolonial struggles for land defense and land rematriation, biocultural diversity restoration, and the restitution of land-based sovereignty--including food sovereignty?
“Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future for humanity!” Join us for an evening of presentations and discussion with three NFU delegates to La Via Campesina’s VIIIth International Conference— Jessie MacInnis (small-scale farmer and PhD student), Celeste Smith (Oneida seedkeeper) and Nettie Wiebe (small-scale farmer and former president of the
Come celebrate the kick-off of Free School 4 Farm Workers by joining us for this two-part online workshop where we take a deep dive into farm employment contracts and negotiation skills. This registration includes both sessions. The second session builds off of the first, and we encourage you to attend both. Employment Contracts 101: Tuesday,
Sowing seeds of solidarity: A learning series to support land and food sovereignty in Palestine Please join us for a learning series to follow up on the resolution passed at convention in support of a ceasefire and a just and lasting peace in Palestine. The teach-ins will feature farmers and advocates offering on-the-ground perspectives on the
Join us Saturday, February 17th at the Fox Theatre in Toronto, ON, from 10am-12pm for a community screening of Depth of Field: Films About Farming, followed by a collective conversation with local farmers and NFU Local 305 about alternative ways that farmers access land and find community support. - Accessibility: Please contact us in advance
Stewards of the Land: The NFU-NB Virtual Depth of Field Screening Join us on Sunday February 18th online at 3:00pm to 4:00pm AST! Don't miss a virtual community screening of short films from Depth of Field: Films About Farming with NFU-NB. Stay after the films for an engaging discussion with the featured farmers. them to
Join us Sunday, February 18th, 7:30-8:30pm at Truro Farmers' Market, 15 Young St., Truro, NS for a movie night at 2024's ACORN Conference. Open to the public. Free to attend. Don't miss a free public screening of three films featuring Atlantic Canada’s Knoydart Farm, Ella’s Forest Organics, and Ferme Marcel Goguen Farm from the new
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