Resources and Other Organisations
Education
- Rootz Into Food Growing report: knowledge and experiences of social enterprise growers from BPOC: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eece00ee6780d38b9fb012f/t/60ace24b8b87b828f51ec72e/1621942864883/FINAL+Rootz+into+Food+Growing+report+25.05.21.pdf
- Cultivating Justice: excellent podcast investigating the experiences of marginalised people in the growing sector: https://farmerama.co/uncategorized/cultivating-justice-episode-1/
- LION writings:
https://landinournames.community/lion-writings and videos:
https://landinournames.community/lion-writings
- Navigate offer training for groups on group processes, decision making and power dynamics. They also have a lot of resources for self-study: https://www.navigate.org.uk/resources.html
- Tripod offer training for creative social action based in Scotland: https://tripodtraining.org/
Groups
UK based
- Land in Our Names (LION): Disrupting oppressive structures relating to land and race in Britain: https://landinournames.community. Support their work here https://landinournames.community/support-our-work
- UBELE (https://www.ubele.org). Black Rootz are a black-led multigenerational project at Wolves Lane in north London. It is an incubation project by Ubele where elders share their growing knowledge and support young people (https://www.ubele.org/black-rootz
Glasgow based
- A new project, Zam'munda, is starting up with a plot at Bellahouston allotments, experimenting with growing African veg. Get involved and/or donate items: https://z-upload.facebook.com/GlasgowCFN/posts/5165147286895282
- Govanhill Baths run a LGBTQI+ Gardening Group with talks on topics such as queer ecology and decolonising the garden: https://www.govanhillbaths.com/projects/whats_on/lgbtqi-gardening/
We would always appreciate knowledge of and collaboration with other groups based in Scotland, or other parts of the island of Britain.