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  • Feeding Ourselves 2026 – local communities, local producers

    What can we do about speculators and millionaires buying or leasing all available farmland? Why are there so few vegetable growers left, supplying local markets? How, in these troubled global times, with trade tariffs and wars for oil shaking the structural realities of business-as-usual, can communities feed themselves without costing the […]

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  • Seeds, Joint Struggle and Staying on your Land in Palestine

    At Feeding Ourselves in Cloughjordan this year, we continued with our joint struggle, shared solidarity activities with farmers in Palestine. We brought Mahmoud Zwahre in from the West Bank via live video link on the Friday night, to tell us about farming there with settler attackers constantly increasing. Mahmoud pointed to […]

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  • Feeding Ourselves Gathering 2026  – Let’s do this!

    Welcome to Feeding Ourselves 2026! This is our annual gathering, one which serves a growing Community of Practice of local food producers and organisers, community food advocates, agri-food and land-use researchers, food justice campaigners, Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) advisors and local food facilitators. Feeding Ourselves the gathering takes place […]

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  • Farminar – where now for digital farmers markets?

    With the rapid spread of digital technology, how is this impacting the local food economy? To address at least some aspects of this question, a farminar (aka webinar with a farmer focus), organised by Cultivate via its work with the CODECS Horizon Europe project, was held in January 2026. The […]

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  • Feeding Ourselves Newsletter January 2026

    The first Feeding Ourselves newsletter of the year is out. In the issue you’ll find: A lot of great work and collaboration is taking shape across the network. Have a read and see what’s coming up.

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