Landworkers' Alliance
@landworkersuk.bsky.social
UK-wide alliance of farmers, foresters and land-based workers. Working to defend our members’ interests and build a better food & land use system for all.
https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/
https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/
Following the #FarmingRoadmap 2050, the government now needs to focus on market regulation in order to expand domestic markets; releasing us from our over-reliance on volatile global supply chains and supporting cooperative localised food webs instead.
landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-response...
landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-response...
July 22, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Following the #FarmingRoadmap 2050, the government now needs to focus on market regulation in order to expand domestic markets; releasing us from our over-reliance on volatile global supply chains and supporting cooperative localised food webs instead.
landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-response...
landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-response...
🌺🌱SINGING THE SONGS OF THE SOIL
“It is a constant thing that I’m thinking about: How does this relationship feel? How am I interacting with the land?”
Meet Tilly Gomersall, who runs Cân y Pridd market garden in Powys, Cymru. You can read her story below:
tinyurl.com/3a5p7j8s
“It is a constant thing that I’m thinking about: How does this relationship feel? How am I interacting with the land?”
Meet Tilly Gomersall, who runs Cân y Pridd market garden in Powys, Cymru. You can read her story below:
tinyurl.com/3a5p7j8s
May 22, 2026 at 4:18 PM
🌺🌱SINGING THE SONGS OF THE SOIL
“It is a constant thing that I’m thinking about: How does this relationship feel? How am I interacting with the land?”
Meet Tilly Gomersall, who runs Cân y Pridd market garden in Powys, Cymru. You can read her story below:
tinyurl.com/3a5p7j8s
“It is a constant thing that I’m thinking about: How does this relationship feel? How am I interacting with the land?”
Meet Tilly Gomersall, who runs Cân y Pridd market garden in Powys, Cymru. You can read her story below:
tinyurl.com/3a5p7j8s
A Land Use Framework for England: What do we need next?
Our 2025 report ‘Share The Land’ found that the UK could produce the majority of its food at home through an agroecological land-sharing approach.
Read more in the article below:
tinyurl.com/2sbrk52a
Our 2025 report ‘Share The Land’ found that the UK could produce the majority of its food at home through an agroecological land-sharing approach.
Read more in the article below:
tinyurl.com/2sbrk52a
April 30, 2026 at 9:59 AM
A Land Use Framework for England: What do we need next?
Our 2025 report ‘Share The Land’ found that the UK could produce the majority of its food at home through an agroecological land-sharing approach.
Read more in the article below:
tinyurl.com/2sbrk52a
Our 2025 report ‘Share The Land’ found that the UK could produce the majority of its food at home through an agroecological land-sharing approach.
Read more in the article below:
tinyurl.com/2sbrk52a
Read our policy brief here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
March 18, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Read our policy brief here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Last week we hosted DEFRA Minister Dame Angela Eagle at Dagenham Farm 🥬
Together with our UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition partners we made the case for a 'Market Garden Support Fund' for England.
Photo credit: DEFRA
Together with our UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition partners we made the case for a 'Market Garden Support Fund' for England.
Photo credit: DEFRA
March 18, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Last week we hosted DEFRA Minister Dame Angela Eagle at Dagenham Farm 🥬
Together with our UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition partners we made the case for a 'Market Garden Support Fund' for England.
Photo credit: DEFRA
Together with our UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition partners we made the case for a 'Market Garden Support Fund' for England.
Photo credit: DEFRA
We've just launched our new 5-Year Strategy 🎉
Writing this strategy has been a process of deep engagement with our membership throughout 2025, and lays out a bold vision for what we want to achieve from.
You can read it (or listen to it!) here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/5-year-strat...
Writing this strategy has been a process of deep engagement with our membership throughout 2025, and lays out a bold vision for what we want to achieve from.
You can read it (or listen to it!) here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/5-year-strat...
March 11, 2026 at 9:20 AM
We've just launched our new 5-Year Strategy 🎉
Writing this strategy has been a process of deep engagement with our membership throughout 2025, and lays out a bold vision for what we want to achieve from.
You can read it (or listen to it!) here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/5-year-strat...
Writing this strategy has been a process of deep engagement with our membership throughout 2025, and lays out a bold vision for what we want to achieve from.
You can read it (or listen to it!) here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/5-year-strat...
The Landworkers’ Alliance stands in firm solidarity with the people of Rojava and condemns the actions of the Syrian regime whose attacks threaten not only the Kurdish resistance but the existence of the Kurdish people themselves.
Full statement: landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-stands-i...
Full statement: landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-stands-i...
January 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
The Landworkers’ Alliance stands in firm solidarity with the people of Rojava and condemns the actions of the Syrian regime whose attacks threaten not only the Kurdish resistance but the existence of the Kurdish people themselves.
Full statement: landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-stands-i...
Full statement: landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-stands-i...
Come and see us at ORFC! Jan 8th -9th in Oxford 🌾
This year we will have a table in the Exhibition Hall, as well as another exciting programme of sessions ...including our collaborations with La Via Campesina.
Full in-person programme here: orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-in...
@orfc.bsky.social
This year we will have a table in the Exhibition Hall, as well as another exciting programme of sessions ...including our collaborations with La Via Campesina.
Full in-person programme here: orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-in...
@orfc.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Come and see us at ORFC! Jan 8th -9th in Oxford 🌾
This year we will have a table in the Exhibition Hall, as well as another exciting programme of sessions ...including our collaborations with La Via Campesina.
Full in-person programme here: orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-in...
@orfc.bsky.social
This year we will have a table in the Exhibition Hall, as well as another exciting programme of sessions ...including our collaborations with La Via Campesina.
Full in-person programme here: orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-in...
@orfc.bsky.social
🚜 To coincide with @landmatchengland.bsky.social's new website launch, we've published a new policy brief making the case for a publicly funded National Land Matching Service for England.
Read it here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Read it here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚜 To coincide with @landmatchengland.bsky.social's new website launch, we've published a new policy brief making the case for a publicly funded National Land Matching Service for England.
Read it here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Read it here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
🍿LWA FILM CLUB IS BACK WITH A BELTER🍿
This month you can screen the wonderful 'Gaucho Gaucho' from the comfort of your home.
Click the link below to find out more about the film and watch the *brilliant* trailer.
tinyurl.com/5n8puu77
This month you can screen the wonderful 'Gaucho Gaucho' from the comfort of your home.
Click the link below to find out more about the film and watch the *brilliant* trailer.
tinyurl.com/5n8puu77
September 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🍿LWA FILM CLUB IS BACK WITH A BELTER🍿
This month you can screen the wonderful 'Gaucho Gaucho' from the comfort of your home.
Click the link below to find out more about the film and watch the *brilliant* trailer.
tinyurl.com/5n8puu77
This month you can screen the wonderful 'Gaucho Gaucho' from the comfort of your home.
Click the link below to find out more about the film and watch the *brilliant* trailer.
tinyurl.com/5n8puu77
July 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A message to all members of the Landworkers' Alliance from @freedomflotilla.bsky.social vessel ‘Handala’:
“We as landworkers, we as La Via Campesina, we have always been in solidarity with Palestine.
Stop the genocide, stop the killings, stop using starvation and famine as a weapon of war.”
“We as landworkers, we as La Via Campesina, we have always been in solidarity with Palestine.
Stop the genocide, stop the killings, stop using starvation and famine as a weapon of war.”
July 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A message to all members of the Landworkers' Alliance from @freedomflotilla.bsky.social vessel ‘Handala’:
“We as landworkers, we as La Via Campesina, we have always been in solidarity with Palestine.
Stop the genocide, stop the killings, stop using starvation and famine as a weapon of war.”
“We as landworkers, we as La Via Campesina, we have always been in solidarity with Palestine.
Stop the genocide, stop the killings, stop using starvation and famine as a weapon of war.”
Here's a little peak into the Land Skills Fair, put together by folk who were there last time out 👀
Just one more week until we gather again 🎪 🪕🎙️🪓💃🏽🕺🏼
🎫 you can get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/42nuxb8r
Footage: @eoghanmcd @nononanadeg
Edit: @alfievideocreator
Poem: Sonny the Sunshine Bard
Just one more week until we gather again 🎪 🪕🎙️🪓💃🏽🕺🏼
🎫 you can get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/42nuxb8r
Footage: @eoghanmcd @nononanadeg
Edit: @alfievideocreator
Poem: Sonny the Sunshine Bard
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Here's a little peak into the Land Skills Fair, put together by folk who were there last time out 👀
Just one more week until we gather again 🎪 🪕🎙️🪓💃🏽🕺🏼
🎫 you can get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/42nuxb8r
Footage: @eoghanmcd @nononanadeg
Edit: @alfievideocreator
Poem: Sonny the Sunshine Bard
Just one more week until we gather again 🎪 🪕🎙️🪓💃🏽🕺🏼
🎫 you can get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/42nuxb8r
Footage: @eoghanmcd @nononanadeg
Edit: @alfievideocreator
Poem: Sonny the Sunshine Bard
July 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Only 10 more days until we are together in Glastonbury for this year’s Land Skills Fair. There are still a few tickets remaining including:
- a small number of solidarity tickets at a much reduced rate
- a small number of BPOC solidarity tickets
www.tickettailor.com/events/lwa/1...
- a small number of solidarity tickets at a much reduced rate
- a small number of BPOC solidarity tickets
www.tickettailor.com/events/lwa/1...
July 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Only 10 more days until we are together in Glastonbury for this year’s Land Skills Fair. There are still a few tickets remaining including:
- a small number of solidarity tickets at a much reduced rate
- a small number of BPOC solidarity tickets
www.tickettailor.com/events/lwa/1...
- a small number of solidarity tickets at a much reduced rate
- a small number of BPOC solidarity tickets
www.tickettailor.com/events/lwa/1...
🌳 Have you read 'Share The Land' yet?
Our report models several scenarios for an agroecological #LandSharing approach to land use.
Our conclusion? W/ the right trade policy, dietary changes & approach to land use, we can source the majority of our food via domestic agroecological local food webs.
Our report models several scenarios for an agroecological #LandSharing approach to land use.
Our conclusion? W/ the right trade policy, dietary changes & approach to land use, we can source the majority of our food via domestic agroecological local food webs.
June 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
🌳 Have you read 'Share The Land' yet?
Our report models several scenarios for an agroecological #LandSharing approach to land use.
Our conclusion? W/ the right trade policy, dietary changes & approach to land use, we can source the majority of our food via domestic agroecological local food webs.
Our report models several scenarios for an agroecological #LandSharing approach to land use.
Our conclusion? W/ the right trade policy, dietary changes & approach to land use, we can source the majority of our food via domestic agroecological local food webs.
🍉 FARMERS AGAINST FORCED STARVATION 🍉
An open letter to the people of Gaza, with love.
As farmers and food producers who dedicate our lives to producing food, we cannot stand by in complicit silence as the people of Gaza are forcibly starved.
Add your name:
tinyurl.com/3nvbaa2w
An open letter to the people of Gaza, with love.
As farmers and food producers who dedicate our lives to producing food, we cannot stand by in complicit silence as the people of Gaza are forcibly starved.
Add your name:
tinyurl.com/3nvbaa2w
May 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🍉 FARMERS AGAINST FORCED STARVATION 🍉
An open letter to the people of Gaza, with love.
As farmers and food producers who dedicate our lives to producing food, we cannot stand by in complicit silence as the people of Gaza are forcibly starved.
Add your name:
tinyurl.com/3nvbaa2w
An open letter to the people of Gaza, with love.
As farmers and food producers who dedicate our lives to producing food, we cannot stand by in complicit silence as the people of Gaza are forcibly starved.
Add your name:
tinyurl.com/3nvbaa2w
🎪 LAND SKILLS FAIR 2025 🎪
Our wondrous summer weekend home for growers, landworkers, foresters, craftspeople, farmers, scientists, activists, healers and change-makers is getting closer! Have you got your tickets yet?
You can find out lots more & get your tickets here:
🎫 tinyurl.com/d6kztkw4
Our wondrous summer weekend home for growers, landworkers, foresters, craftspeople, farmers, scientists, activists, healers and change-makers is getting closer! Have you got your tickets yet?
You can find out lots more & get your tickets here:
🎫 tinyurl.com/d6kztkw4
April 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🎪 LAND SKILLS FAIR 2025 🎪
Our wondrous summer weekend home for growers, landworkers, foresters, craftspeople, farmers, scientists, activists, healers and change-makers is getting closer! Have you got your tickets yet?
You can find out lots more & get your tickets here:
🎫 tinyurl.com/d6kztkw4
Our wondrous summer weekend home for growers, landworkers, foresters, craftspeople, farmers, scientists, activists, healers and change-makers is getting closer! Have you got your tickets yet?
You can find out lots more & get your tickets here:
🎫 tinyurl.com/d6kztkw4
🍅 The UK Government is currently consulting on how it should regulate the seeds of new genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
The outcome will impact *everyone* who buys seeds - from commercial growers to home gardeners
Respond by April 14th:
www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... @gm-freeze.bsky.social
The outcome will impact *everyone* who buys seeds - from commercial growers to home gardeners
Respond by April 14th:
www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... @gm-freeze.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🍅 The UK Government is currently consulting on how it should regulate the seeds of new genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
The outcome will impact *everyone* who buys seeds - from commercial growers to home gardeners
Respond by April 14th:
www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... @gm-freeze.bsky.social
The outcome will impact *everyone* who buys seeds - from commercial growers to home gardeners
Respond by April 14th:
www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... @gm-freeze.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
APRIL 26TH | LONDON
🚜 RALLY TO FIX OUR FOOD SYSTEM 🚜
On April 26th 2025, we’ll be bringing together farmers, growers, food system workers, activists and everyone who has a stake in the UK’s food system (yes – that includes you!) to march in London under the banner #FoodInOurHands.
Join us!
🧵⬇️
🚜 RALLY TO FIX OUR FOOD SYSTEM 🚜
On April 26th 2025, we’ll be bringing together farmers, growers, food system workers, activists and everyone who has a stake in the UK’s food system (yes – that includes you!) to march in London under the banner #FoodInOurHands.
Join us!
🧵⬇️
March 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
APRIL 26TH | LONDON
🚜 RALLY TO FIX OUR FOOD SYSTEM 🚜
On April 26th 2025, we’ll be bringing together farmers, growers, food system workers, activists and everyone who has a stake in the UK’s food system (yes – that includes you!) to march in London under the banner #FoodInOurHands.
Join us!
🧵⬇️
🚜 RALLY TO FIX OUR FOOD SYSTEM 🚜
On April 26th 2025, we’ll be bringing together farmers, growers, food system workers, activists and everyone who has a stake in the UK’s food system (yes – that includes you!) to march in London under the banner #FoodInOurHands.
Join us!
🧵⬇️
The recent announcement from Defra that they will no longer be accepting applications for the #SustainableFarmingIncentive has come as a huge blow to our members.
You can read our full response here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/defra-announ...
You can read our full response here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/defra-announ...
March 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The recent announcement from Defra that they will no longer be accepting applications for the #SustainableFarmingIncentive has come as a huge blow to our members.
You can read our full response here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/defra-announ...
You can read our full response here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/defra-announ...
🥬 If you're a farmer or grower on 5ha or less in England, please take 5 mins to complete this survey and help us to make SFI work for small farmers and market gardens.
➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@organicrescent.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @sustainweb.org
➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@organicrescent.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @sustainweb.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🥬 If you're a farmer or grower on 5ha or less in England, please take 5 mins to complete this survey and help us to make SFI work for small farmers and market gardens.
➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@organicrescent.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @sustainweb.org
➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@organicrescent.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @sustainweb.org
It's a pivotal time for farming
Rachel Reeves is looking for ways to cut gov spending ahead of the next spending review: and the farming budget is in the firing line
Join us in signing the @rspb.bsky.social petition for a bigger nature-friendly farming budget!
action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/...
Rachel Reeves is looking for ways to cut gov spending ahead of the next spending review: and the farming budget is in the firing line
Join us in signing the @rspb.bsky.social petition for a bigger nature-friendly farming budget!
action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/...
March 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's a pivotal time for farming
Rachel Reeves is looking for ways to cut gov spending ahead of the next spending review: and the farming budget is in the firing line
Join us in signing the @rspb.bsky.social petition for a bigger nature-friendly farming budget!
action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/...
Rachel Reeves is looking for ways to cut gov spending ahead of the next spending review: and the farming budget is in the firing line
Join us in signing the @rspb.bsky.social petition for a bigger nature-friendly farming budget!
action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/...