Articles by Agroecology Land Trust

The converging food, energy, and soil crises that we are facing today necessitate a new approach to farming and energy production, and a new relationship with the land. The Agroecology Land Trust is an organisation created to advocate and implement agroecological methods in the UK to help secure food sovereignty,energy independence, and environmental regeneration in a way that is financially viable and socially just. We envision the regeneration of both the countryside and rural economies through the creation of self-built co-sufficient community farms rooted in agroecological production. A 70 acre woodland on the western edge of the Brecon Beacons is the location for our initial research and development of applied agroecological methods to produce food, fuel and fibre – and to do so using systems that are not merely sustainable, but that actively repair and regenerate the degraded ecosystems we live with today. At the heart of our endeavour is the principle of co-sufficiency, both within the farm community and in its relationship with the wider community.