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Letting the Sun Warm You

March is a quietly busy month for us. With much of our collective on leave, away or busy with other work we ask our network and community - lend us your patience as we slow down. We have so much to share with you and so much we are excited about. Most of all we hope those of you who are also in London have been enjoying the warmth of the sun on your skin and all the hope that the dawning of Spring brings.

Events
 

Rootz Into Food Growing Seed-swap and Brainstorm | Sunday 27th March at 10:30am
(REGISTER HERE)

Join us for a Spring seed swap and working session for the next in our series of meetings for Black and people of colour (BPOC) growers and land justice activists in London. We will be meeting to workshop what our next steps are, what skills we have within our network that we can share through skill sharing and support, and we will have a short talk on the importance of seed saving. Of course, we will also have time to eat lunch and swap some seeds! We will also be distributing our brand new growers' resource packs for BPOC - keep an eye out! This event is organised by the Rootz Into Food Growing London Network and is a space exclusively for Black people and people of colour within the horticultural sector to meet, make connections, and learn from each other.

What to bring:

- Cash for lunch
- Seeds to swap!

Repair as Spirituality

We strongly believe that reparations are not only about redistributing land and resources but also about creating space to heal and reconnect to ourselves, our ancestors and the land through spirituality and somatics. 

Radical Dharma London have organised an event with Lama Rod Owens, a Queer Black Buddhist teacher working towards liberation. Join them on Tuesday 22nd March at 7pm at Corams Fields for an event focusing on vulnerability and rage in liberation for Black and people of colour and queer-identifying folks. Pay what you can and sliding scale tickets available.
Tickets available here

Our friends Don't Tell The Village Elders are also organising an event looking at grief and rage with Lama Rod Owens on the 31st March at 7pm at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning. Get your tickets here

Finally we will be co-hosting our Spring gathering with Wretched of the Earth and Decolonising Economics, looking at healing through food and land justice for  "Feeding Our Healing" on April 10th at House of Annetta from 11am. Stay tuned for more info soon.

LION's Growers Grants for BPOC Debrief

We've finally managed to write up a debrief about our Growers Grants for Black and people of colour which you can read here. A summary of the year long project, from the fundraising to the distribution of grants, we look to funders and grant-giving organisations to really look at themselves and see what they can do to make resources more accessible to growers of colour. 
We extend our gratitude to everyone who has helped us along the way and especially to everyone who applied for a grant. Read the debrief now.

Jobs!

New community gardening post for the Norwood School SE19

The Norwood School has been awarded funding for an exciting new project to increase food growing space in the school grounds and to employ a community gardener to facilitate greater pupil engagement in the garden, learning about food growing/gardening, nutrition, biodiversity and composting. The project aims to bring the well being and health benefits of growing food, gardening, learning outdoors and physical activity to Norwood School pupils. The project is being supported by Incredible Edible Lambeth  and funded by the Norwood Forum. We are looking for an experienced community gardener to bring their knowledge and experience to the project.
More information here | Deadline - 20th March 2022

GROW Barnet Trainee Food Growers
We are currently recruiting for two Trainee Food Growers (18-25) to join our team at the GROW Farm in Totteridge from April-September. Our 6 acre farm in Barnet functions both as a community farm; providing adult volunteering opportunities, traineeships and sustainably grown produce for our box scheme, school canteen, restaurants and local people, and also as an educational site for our partner school and local children and young people in the borough. We grow vegetables, herbs and flowers and have a small flock of chickens and beehives. 
More information here | Deadline 1st April 2022

Website Updates

Sam has been slowly updating our website, if you have a browse you'll notice that our About Us pages have changed with clarity on what exactly we do as a collective, what our aims and values are and our working definition of Reparations centred. We'll be including a team page soon and we want to have a page focusing on transparency and accountability regarding our finances.

Right now Sam needs some help with improving accessbility and wants some advice about web-design etc. If you have any experience with website accessibility or web-design please email sam@landinournames.community