An activist centre dedicated to intergenerational and intersectional sharing of practical and political skills for land skills and justice

An emerging community of landworkers, farmers, crafters, natural builders, foresters, campaigners, educators and activists dedicated to connecting people to land and sea.

We are part of a global network of peasants who are deeply committed to the communities we serve and the crafts we tend.

We believe that connection builds peace & diversity creates resilience.

Disconnection from nature threatens our livelihoods, ecosystems and communities.

There is also a fundamental inequality in access to the countryside. In the UK black and brown people are 60% less likely to be able to access green spaces and natural environments than their white counterparts.

People from marginalised communities and those from less privileged socio-economic backgrounds also face similar issues.

A part of the solution is to empower people to live, raise children, earn their livelihoods and find meaning in ways that are less dependent on markets and more dependent on the land and healthy relationship with each other. We seek to create more access to employment opportunities for land based employment by a wider range of the population.

We need to explore a new way of living – drawing inspiration from peasant and indigenous ways of living and ideals of community-based autonomy and mutual aid.

The Land Skills Hub is part of the La Via Campesina Agroecology Training School global network. With over seventy schools worldwide, there is a growing movement founded upon the understanding that practical and political education in agroecology is a path towards creating a just and equitable society.

We are part of a global network of peasants who are deeply committed to the communities we serve and the crafts we tend.

We aim to create alternative ways of living that can solve the most deeply rooted structural problems our society is facing — nutrition, housing, exclusion and marginalisation.

The loss of biodiversity, climate change and rising inequality stem from the rising control of capitalism over our daily lives. Disconnection from nature threatens our livelihoods, ecosystems and communities.

There are currently only two agroecology training schools in the UK — one in Scotland and one in Wales. We therefore recognise the deficit in this type of training and support, which is needed to empower people in England and build a global movement.

Agroecology creates alternatives to agribusiness by building collective power. Power is the ability to act. We focus on relational power — this happens when people come together as equals, to work towards a common aim.

At the Land Skills Hub we empower through connecting people to land and sea, as a way to inspire action in building a better world. We centre our processes of empowerment around popular education.

This is “a method and an approach that puts forward the scaling up of agroecology at the territorial level and the strengthening of peoples’ food sovereignty.”

Popular education includes practical and technical skills sharing, peer-to-peer & farmer-to-farmer knowledge and skills transfer, discussions, storytelling and collective campaigns.

We recognise that knowledge and experience is socially produced — we are social beings. Here, knowledge is based on people’s experience on the ground, which is then shared with the collective. We acknowledge the multiplicity of knowledge and social and human diversity.

To be part of, and build, the social movement, based on connecting people to the continuum of life.

To keep traditional skills alive as a basis for developing new knowledge systems, weaving them into new ways of redesigning our society.

All of our events are open to anyone who wants to come along and contribute, but the project specifically works to increase opportunities for young people and for marginalised communities who typically face barriers to accessing the countryside, including people of colour, people with disabilities, people experiencing economic hardship, and the LGBTQ community, to encourage greater access to the countryside.