With the Land : Reflections on Land Work and Ten years of the Landworkers' Alliance

With the Land marks 10 years of the Landworkers’ Alliance.It exploreswhat it means to work with the land, reflects on the wider land work movementand celebrates what is achievable through collective action.With the Land isa seed store of stories and poetry, interviews, recipes, essays, artwork andsong, by and about people who have tilled and cared for the lands of Britainto produce food, fuel and timber within a culture of regeneration.Old handsand young voices, activists and campaigners, foresters and farmers, shepherdsand soil keepers, have come together to create a testament of thecollaborative spirit, vision and hard work that goes into restoring ourrelationships with the natural world, and making a new approach to land useand food growing possible.It links the past, present and future by bringingtogether voices from our membership and beyond.Filled with song lyrics,texts, photography, poetry, a letter and recipe the individual pieces in thebook cover issues such as access to land, the importance of seed sovereignty,gender and land work, as well as the ecological and social imperative ofcreating a better food and land work system by working in harmony with nature. Spanning landscapes that range from forests to uplands, city farms to ruralhinterlands, each section tells the story of how a dedicated network oflandworkers are pushing against history to create a radical future-lookingmovement.