The personal and political reflections from this epic journey with the River Avon are summarised in 3 parts/themes, with different...

PRESS RELEASE Delivering the River Avon charter to town councils and leaders along the 100 mile pilgrimage Communities across the Avon...

We have reached the dire point in civilisation where the majority of our daily actions are bound up in a destructive and extractive...

This post aims to outline an evolving vision for a truly regenerative community and land hub in our bioregion. This is part of the wider...

How we manage natural resources into the long term is the critical chal;lenge and opportunity of our time. Communities have stewarded...

This writing aims to honestly communicate some of the ‘start up’ story of Middle Ground Growers, the ups and downs, whirlwinds and...

Exploring the roles of protest, reform and ‘creation of alternatives’ in our current food and farming crises   My path into farming took...

Launching We Are Avon, a place-based movement We are in a new and unique moment for climate action, food systems renewal and ecological...

Following on from the previous post on Technology and the Futures of Farming, this post reflects my own personal translation of this into...

Discussions around technology and farming tend to go in two polarising directions. The first party, and perhaps the most dominant in now...

There is a great but complex stirring of hope as the regenerative movement takes hold across the ravaged plains of Earth. Soil, a...

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...

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...

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...

The case for a Basic Income for Farmers What if food producers received an unconditional living wage? What if this was combined with real...

Mental health and farming ; holding hope and grief, joy and despair, resilience and adversity The inner and outer challenges of farming...

These birthing years of Middle Ground Growers have taken us on a collective journey of human scale farming in a world of mechanisation...

Introducing an exciting new project to create pollinator abundance in our landscapes and farms! Pollinate Avon is a farmer and...

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...

Never has the act of eating had more global ripples and significance for our earth-human trajectory. We sit at a curious crossroads of...