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WE FEED THE UK
Ground-breaking stories of regenerative farming, told through radical collaboration, to celebrate those nourishing people and planet.
We Feed The UK is a major storytelling campaign, pairing photographers and poets with the UK’s best custodians of soil, sea and seed.
Food forms us, and producing it with care for human and more-than-human communities can re-form our home for the better. These are the stories of regenerative farmers, urban growers, sustainable fishers and grain rebels: the quiet revolutionaries with grassroots solutions to climate change, biodiversity collapse and social justice. The time is ripe to celebrate their efforts and inspire widespread support for sustainable farming.
AS SEEN IN RESURGENCE & ECOLOGIST
“We Feed The UK is a monumental undertaking – with a clever premise – whereby ten poets and ten award-winning photographers have been commissioned to tell ten stories of ‘hope’ in an otherwise battered and bruised food-producing landscape: one damaged by Brexit, climate chaos, the cost of living crisis and heart-breaking biodiversity loss”
powerful stories to inspire change
cross-sector collaborators from growers to poets
thousand attendees at events across the UK
million farmers and food eaters reached
The complete collection of photography and poetry from we feed the UK
Image courtesy of Papadakis Publisher
“This book treats us all to a glimpse through the lens of a movement for change that is gathering pace … there is hope here.” Dan Saladino
“We need more hope. And we need stories like this to know that things are possible.” Jasmine Gardosi
“Part photo book, part poetry anthology, part gentle, multi-vocal manifesto, We Feed The UK energetically sets about the task of reconnecting us with where our food comes from.” Hannibal Rhoades
Featured on BBC Radio 4 – The Food Programme
“It’s important to remember that we are making the culture and culture makes mindsets. We can inspire this change that needs to happen.” Hot Poet, Dizraeli, speaking to the BBC Food Programme
Jimi Famurewa, host of BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme, visits three producers and poets taking part in We Feed The UK, to ask whether poetry can convince us to care about our food…
THE REGENERATIVE FARMING STORIES
APRIL 2025
FISHING: IN WATERS OFF CORNWALL AND THE SCILLY ISLES
Inspired by fishers along the southwest coast
Poetry by Chris Redmond | Photography by Jon Tonks | Exhibited at Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol
APRIL 2025
GRAIN REBELS: A FOOD REVOLUTION STARTS WITH SEED
Inspired by Gothelney Farm and Field Bakery in Somerset
Poetry by Dizraeli | Photography by Lúa Ribeira | Exhibited at The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol
FEBRUARY 2025
FIBRE: NATURE-FRIENDLY FLAX FARMING
Inspired by Mallon Farm in Northern Ireland
Poetry by Abby Oliveira | Photography by Yvette Monahan | Exhibited at Belfast Exposed in Northern Ireland
In the emerald peaks of the Scottish highlands, in tranquil pockets of new life in North London, and in rich fields nestled between Cumbria’s ancient hedgerows, farmers tend their land, nurturing pastures of quiet rebellion and hope.
Click a pin to discover the seeds of change being sown near you.
Through telling these ten powerful stories we are sowing seeds for a future where regenerative farming is the norm.
“71% of the UK is farmland. The potential for this to become the place where we support biodiversity, sequester carbon and address so many of the other problems we are facing is enormous. The arts have the power to speak to the heart. Apathy is such a big barrier, and hope activates.”
Co-Director of The Gaia Foundation, Rowan Phillimore
Celebrating Our Custodians of Soil and Sea
The complete collection of photography and poetry from We Feed The UK
Following ten regional exhibitions shown in succession with arts partners across the UK, the now-unified body of work signifies a new phase of the campaign, which we are excited to share details of soon.
Find out how our Complete Collection honours its subjects and the Earth.
“We believe that photography has a tremendous power to bring communities together to affect positive social and environmental change.”
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS
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Book Launch | London
15 July 2025 @ Wolves Lane Centre, London
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We Feed The UK at Groundswell Agricultural Festival
PAST: 8pm in the Workshop Tent on 2 July 2025 @ Groundswell Agricultural Festival
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Exhibition | Celebrating our Custodians of Soil and Sea: The Complete Collection of Photography and Poetry
PAST: 3 April – 22 June 2025 @ Royal Photographic Society, Bristol
Featured on BBC Scotland Outdoors
Listen to the partners collaborating on our Scottish sustainable farming story speak to BBC Radio Scotland:
“My relationship with nature is through language. I love that there is lichen called Water Speckled Midnight, and a mushroom called the Flirt. It has been interesting using that skillset to translate the great work being done at Lauriston Farm… Manners of speaking are manners of worldbuilding, so even if you don’t have access to green space you can access it through literature. To name something is to know it.” Hot Poet, Iona Lee
“I’ve been visualising our landscape through the eyes of those who are often underrepresented for a long time. I really think our landscape is part of our identity in Scotland. Yet, that’s a story predominantly told by men. Where are the women’s stories? Where are their viewpoints?” Photographer, Sophie Gerrard
See Sophie’s photography, commissioned for We Feed The UK, in the high-profile arts magazine, Aesthetica:
REGENERATIVE FARMING NEWS
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Launching our We Feed The UK regenerative farming book
Amid a tangle of glasshouses in Wood Green, North London, the sound of Djembe drums, singing, and laughter filled the…
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Unearthing regenerative wisdom at Groundswell
We’re back from Groundswell, having shared seeds, poetry, and freshly baked stories from the land among friends old and new.…
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Regenerative Conversation | Dr Debal Deb and Dan Saladino on Resilient Rice Varieties
“I never knew that the little box of my personal stories of agony and joy, pried open by Dan Saladino’s…
“We Feed The UK is important in getting positive stories to the public – the current vilification of farmers needs to stop. There are small pockets of us trying to be better, which We Feed The UK can help the consumer see and understand, whilst also offering hope to farmers stuck in an imperfect system. This project proves that there are other ways to do it that can not only enhance biodiversity and battle climate change, but also bring people together and improve financial performance. Everyone wins and that story needs to be told.” Farmer, Stuart Johnson
ARTS & ENVIRONMENT PARTNERS
Grown by The Gaia Foundation with collaborators across the country, We Feed The UK pairs ten photographers and ten Hot Poets with ten regenerative farming stories. Their work is being shared in partnership with ten arts organisations between February 2024 and June 2025, supported by evidence from ten environmental allies who are leading the regenerative sustainable farming movement.
