Worm charmers, carbon capturers, wildflower whisperers, insect allies: regenerative farmers and fishers are working with nature, up and down the UK, in a time-honoured team.
Now, the We Feed The UK arts project and an accompanying book profile 10 of those that are leading the way, from Black-led growing projects in London to a majority-women workers cooperative in Edinburgh.
Rowan Phillimore and Ally Nelson from The Gaia Foundation, the charity which is behind the project along with more than 40 collaborators, refer in their introduction to the book to Nobel prize-winning chemist Ilya Prigogine.
“He said that ‘when a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order,’ they wrote.“The stories in this book are such ‘islands of coherence’”.
