🌽 October Newsletter
Happy Autumn 🎃
We've had two exciting summer months, and as the autumnal season begins we are looking forward to celebrating some of our efforts at the Cultivating Justice Wrap Party (see below), and hope you'll enjoy reading a little about what we've been up to and what other exciting things are coming up!
CULTIVATING JUSTICE WRAP PARTY Next Wednesday Land in Our Names, Farmerama and Out On The Land are putting an event to celebrate the completion of our collaborative project - Cultivating Justice!
BPOC, trans and queer folx and women in landworking to the front! Accomplices are welcome too for an evening of tarot reading, live music, DJs, poetry and most importantly - delicious food!
What We've Been Up To!
Since our Open Evening in August, we've been doing some systems work, onboarding a new member, and we hosted a BPOC caucus! The caucus was a beautiful event where we invited panelists from Coco Collective and GoGrowWithLove to share some of their experiences and challenges starting up community growing projects. On the day we also had a herbal tea workshop and arts and crafts workshop, and were hosted in Phytology's beautiful space in the middle of Bethnal Green.
Jobs
SPITALFIELDS CITY FARM I GROWING MANAGER, FULL TIME, 27 K.
Deadline: 17 October
Spitalfields City Farm is a free-entry, urban oasis located a stone’s throw from the City of London that offers a unique and creative natural environment for all to enjoy. Our vision is ‘to create a space for all, that empowers people to make positive change to their lives, our community, and the planet.’
As the Growing Manager, you would be responsible for the development and management of all horticulture operations at Spitalfields City Farm while growing seasonal, sustainable, and meaninful produce to connect and engage with the local community and visitors to Spitalfields City Farm.
Check out these events!
What better way to spend your Sunday than at the Black Farmers Market - happening this Sunday 9th October in Brixton! More Information here.
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Organic Matters 2022 is a day long event for experienced horticulturalists and new entrants; facilitating the exchange of technical information within the industry through speaker sessions and networking opportunities.
OM22 will be based at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham and online.
We'd love to see as many of you there as possible, and as we have done in previous years, we would like to offer all members and supporters of LION a free online ticket - all you have to do is email development@organicgrowersalliance.co.uk with your interest and we'll put your name down for a free ticket. We will try to email you with confirmation within two days of you sending us an email - if you don't hear back from us in that time please email hello@organicgrowersalliance.co.uk. If you would like to attend in-person, please also mention this in your email. We will try to allocate as many free in-person tickets as we can, but due to venue size we may be limited (so get in touch as soon as you can!)
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Black History Harvest
On October 16th, join Coco Collective for a day celebrating the abundance of nature, bringing the community closer to land and by extension, ourselves and each other.