Reclaim the Fields:Spring into Action Gathering!FoD

:Reclaim the Fields : Spring into Action Gath­er­ing! 16th-25th March:
Yorkley Court is host­ing the Reclaim the Fields ‘Spring into Action’ gath­er­ing, on Sat­ur­day the 16th of March- 25th! The Gath­er­ing aims to be a plat­form for shar­ing prac­ti­cal land-based skills, crafts and relat­ed knowl­edge. We intend to ‘get on with it’ whilst con­tin­u­al­ly seek­ing to cre­ate a pop­u­lar discourse/ debate on the issues of land access, the right to food autonomy/ sov­er­eign­ty and the right to build and dwell with­in a low-impact home on the land.

Yorkley Court Com­mu­ni­ty Farm is a grow­ing grass-roots farm in the For­est of Dean, inter­est­ed in devel­op­ing resilient agro-eco­log­i­cal sys­tems, that are both pro­duc­tive and eco­log­i­cal­ly regen­er­a­tive.

The Seed Camp will start on the 8th of March, with a two day Per­ma­cul­ture course by Tomas Remi­arz. The rest of the week will focus on set­ting up infra­struc­ture and open­ly, inclu­sive­ly organ­is­ing the Gath­er­ing. Any­one inter­est­ed and able to help get the Gath­er­ing off to a great start, should come along for this week, pri­or to the main Gath­er­ing! Lots of skill-shar­ing and fun will be had!

We are cur­rent­ly look­ing for peo­ple inter­est­ed in doing talks, run­ning work­shops and skill-shar­ing dur­ing the main Gath­er­ing… every­one will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to share their skills and knowl­edge at the gath­er­ing, but we can pub­li­cise the workshops/talks offered before the gath­er­ing! So let us know what you’d like to offer or to see, in the way of workshops/skillshares asap!

The week­ends of the Gath­er­ing will be focused on talks, pre­sen­ta­tions, work­shops and dis­cus­sions. The week days between will be more focused on prac­ti­cal activ­i­ties.

Please get hold of us, if you’re plan­ning to come to the Seed Camp, or are want­i­ng to do talk, run a work­shop, etc…

:Con­tact Details:

yorkleycourt@gmail.com

yorkleycourt.wordpress.com < our main, local com­mu­ni­ty fac­ing web­site!

rtfspring2013.wordpress.com  < the gath­er­ings own web­site! pro­gramme still under-con­struc­tion!

reclaimthefields.org.uk < our con­stel­la­tions web­site

:A bit about the For­est:

The For­est of Dean is a land betwix two rivers, a secret Wilder­ness in West Glouces­ter­shire, right on the Welsh board­er.

The For­est of Dean has his­tor­i­cal­ly been the home of many rad­i­cal land-rights strug­gles and was set­tled by ‘the cab­in­ers’, peo­ple who built their homes “by right” instead of through state depen­dence. They were treat­ed by the state with the same dis­tain as ‘squat­ters’ are today, albeit with more direct vio­lence and less PR spin.

As one Oxford prof. put it, after mov­ing here recent­ly, because…
“The For­est and it’s peo­ple have a healthy dis­re­gard for the rule of law!”

Resis­tance is Fer­tile!

Reclaim the Fields!

“Reclaim the Fields is a con­stel­la­tion of peo­ple and col­lec­tive projects will­ing to go back to the land and reas­sume the con­trol over food pro­duc­tion. ”