Land In Our Names is a Black and People of Colour (BPOC) collective working towards racial justice and land justice in Britain through a reparative justice framework. We work to platform and support Black, Asian and racialised growers, landworkers, and other plant and land centred workers. We seek to connect Black and people of colour to the land, to create opportunities for racialised communities to heal on the land, and to change the narrative around land in Britain. Over the past year we have featured in several articles, written some of our own, spoken at events and in podcasts, hosted events and talks and collaborated with different groups and organisations on projects around land justice, access and racial justice.
Some of our work in 2021 has included:
Growers Grants – The distribution of 112 micro-grants to growers of colour (new project page to be added to our website)
Anne:Seed – A series of events hosted at House of Annetta
Rootz Into Food Growing Report – A short report collecting stories and experiences of London-based growers of colour on food growing as a livelihood and the barriers to access.Banjos, Gourds and Callaloo – The publication and release of our first zine by Marcus MacDonald as a part of our Cultivating Justice project
Remembering to Repair – A collaborative event with Wretched of the Earth to commemorate climate and land justice activists and create a healing space to rest and commune
In 2022 we are working on:
Cultivating Justice – The collaborative creation of a zine on decolonising/queering botany as a part of Cultivating Justice and a podcast seriesJumping Fences – Research on Black growers and growers of colour in rural Britain London BPOC Growers Network – the establishment and sustaining of a London based Black growers and growers of colour network
Resource Pack for BPOC Growers – We created a resource pack as a follow up on the Growers Grants and now we are working with illustrators and designers to make a printed versionFeeding Our Healing – a collaborative event with Wretched of the Earth and Decolonising Economics centring food and land justice Updating our website and other internal maintenance work
Community events and network-building with BPOC growers and landworkers
You can read, listen and watch more about LION here:
Writings by LION or featuring LION
Articles
New Economics Foundation – this land is our land
Farming For Justice – Claire Ratinon
https://gal-dem.com/radical-gardening-land-exploitation/Gal Dem Article by Kate Bernstock
Talks & events
Why Reparations are crucial to climate solutions
https://landinournames.community/past-events
Land and the Climate Crisis – Stuart Hall Foundation
Podcasts