Learning from Liége
Lessons for a resilient local food culture This week I have had the joy to visit Liège, Belgium, and learnt about their 10 year journey...
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hamishevans0
- Feb 17
- 7 min
Regenerators 2024
What is the potential when a critical mass of humans begin truly giving their gifts to the regeneration of life? How do we make this...
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hamishevans0
- Jan 19
- 9 min
A Regenerative Movement
Seeds of a new food and land revolution in the shell of the old Does anyone else feel as though we are in a new and distinct moment for...
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hamishevans0
- Dec 15, 2023
- 7 min
Sowing seeds of stability
The case for a Basic Income for Farmers What if food producers received an unconditional living wage? What if this was combined with real...
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hamishevans0
- Dec 1, 2023
- 9 min
The inner seasons of Farmers
Mental health and farming ; holding hope and grief, joy and despair, resilience and adversity The inner and outer challenges of farming...
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hamishevans0
- Nov 18, 2023
- 9 min
Fruits and thorns of scale
These birthing years of Middle Ground Growers have taken us on a collective journey of human scale farming in a world of mechanisation...
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hamishevans0
- Oct 17, 2023
- 3 min
Pollinate Avon
Introducing an exciting new project to create pollinator abundance in our landscapes and farms! Pollinate Avon is a farmer and...
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hamishevans0
- Sep 2, 2023
- 9 min
Regenerating Beauty
Real beauty vs artificial cosmetics in the English countryside We are beings that are driven by beauty, whether we know it or not. So our...
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hamishevans0
- Jun 11, 2023
- 7 min
Think Global, Eat Local
Never has the act of eating had more global ripples and significance for our earth-human trajectory. We sit at a curious crossroads of...
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hamishevans0
- May 14, 2023
- 9 min
Belonging to place
! Very important headnote and footnote: When exploring and defining 'indigeneity', it is so important to acknowledge that it is beyond my...
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hamishevans0
- Apr 24, 2023
- 6 min
Perennial culture
Following on from a previous post ‘in defence of annual vegetables,’ where both the limits and potential of annual horticulture were...
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hamishevans0
- Apr 5, 2023
- 13 min
Soil Health & regeneration
Exploring the role of soil health in regenerative food and farming systems Introduction Soil health is often cited as the core tenet and...
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hamishevans0
- Mar 3, 2023
- 8 min
Growing the middle ground and dissolving barriers in food and farming spaces.
This year I am representing the National Farmers Union (NFU) as a ‘Young Farming Ambassador’ for the South West, as a 25 year-old new...
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hamishevans0
- Feb 19, 2023
- 7 min
Why even grow annual vegetables?
Annual vegetables often require more energy, more inputs and more intensive care than many other plants or animals. This is because they...
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hamishevans0
- Jan 4, 2023
- 6 min
Scales of transformation
Collaborative Agroecologies Part 3 – weaving scales of transformation from the interpersonal to the bioregional Part 1 of Collaborative...
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hamishevans0
- Dec 16, 2022
- 6 min
Navigating solutions amidst polarised politics and a change-averse culture
A Statement from Middle Ground Growers regarding the politicisation of our farm and livelihoods It has come to our attention that a small...
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hamishevans0
- Dec 1, 2022
- 5 min
The tools of Collaborative Agroecology
(continued from part 1 of Collaborative Agroecologies). Agriculture at the heart of todays ecological and social challenges, with land...
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hamishevans0
- Nov 8, 2022
- 8 min
Hope enlivened
Keeping hope alive through the darkest night and emerging into the most glorious sunrise of tomorrow The waxing and waning of hope has...
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hamishevans0
- Nov 1, 2022
- 6 min
Collaborative Agroecologies
Collaborative Agroecologies (Part 1) : An exploration into the importance of collaboration in the work of cultural and food systems...
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hamishevans0
- Sep 27, 2022
- 9 min
Cost of living, cost of Earth
Why both the root causes and solutions to the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis are the same, and the active potential of this...
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