Worm charmers, wildflower whisperers, carbon capturers, insect allies: regenerative farmers and fishers are working with nature in a time-honoured team.

Across a country that is 71% farmland, where less than half of our biodiversity remains, restorative practices are the root to future resilience. The time is ripe to celebrate these efforts, in support of the regenerative agriculture transition.

We Feed The UK is a major arts project pairing critically acclaimed photographers and poets with regenerative farmers, urban growers, sustainable fishers and grain rebels: the UK’s custodians of land, soil, sea and seed.

Grown by The Gaia Foundation with collaborators across the country, We Feed The UK brings together over 40 partners from the environment and arts sectors to tell ten time-critical stories across urban, rural and coastal areas; ranging from multi-generational, Black-led growing projects in London to a majority-women workers cooperative in Edinburgh via sustainable fishing along the south coast.

Through these tales planting the seeds of change, We Feed The UK is laying the groundwork for a just, safe, and liveable tomorrow. So far, our message has reached over 54 million people on their pathway from consumer to custodian.

We Feed The UK kicked off with ten ground-breaking collaborations shared online and in person in succession between February 2024 and June 2025:

PLUS: 2024 – 2026 | Pop-Up Portraits: Our travelling exhibition showcasing and celebrating the diverse, inspiring, and radically-minded grassroots agroecology movement | Photography by Louis Little | Exhibited up and down the country

So far the portraits have travelled to Oxford Real Farming Conference, Rheged Cumbria, Yeo Valley, FarmED, Waddesdon Manor, Groundswell, Be The Earth Festival, Go Falkland and WOMAD with a combined audience of 64,000 people.

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The regional exhibitions culminated in a 12-week run of the complete collection of photography and poetry from We Feed The UK being exhibited in spring 2025, coinciding with the launch of the We Feed The UK book.

The now-unified body of work signifies a new phase of We Feed The UK, which we are excited to share details of soon.

Our food forms us. How we produce it can shape society: offering positive solutions to intertwined crises.

Farming and fishing can be at the heart of nature recovery in an age of biodiversity collapse. Regenerative agricultural practices can bring communities together even as we’re forced apart. And working with, not against, our earth promises resilience to unpredictable change while floods deepen and temperatures rise.

We Feed The UK will grow support for the practices that can heal people and planet, through a radical re-storying of regenerative farmers as custodians of biocultural diversity across our isles.

This celebration of regenerative agriculture, through innovative, diverse cross-sector collaboration, will reach new audiences, challenge perceptions, and inspire support for a country-wide transition towards this approach.

Since the We Feed The UK launch in Liverpool in February 2024, we have been rolling out the first phase of national exhibitions, pop-up portrait exhibitions, events and performances at pace. 

Exhibitions across the UK have reached a range of urban and rural audiences, amassing an estimated visitor count so far of over 250,000. Through events, press features, and partnerships, we have told our story to over 54 million people and counting.

From changing the way people think about food, to inspiring a growing number of community gardens, to helping farming organisations accelerate the transition to regenerative agricultural practices, we are already witnessing the power of storytelling to rewrite our shared future.

“The work that The Gaia Foundation’s We Feed The UK project and the Hot Poets have done in translating the day to day actions of farmers into poetry has connected us with new audiences in impactful ways. Many of us, including myself, have been deeply moved by how the stories of our farms are turned into words for all to understand what we do and why we do it. This has helped us as farmers and as an organisation to relay our messages and actions to a wider audience, giving us further impact and enabling us to deliver better actions for
farming, nature, food, and climate.”

Martin Lines, Director of the Nature Friendly Farming Network

AN EXHIBITION THAT HONOURS ITS SUBJECTS

Photographs have a unique power to inspire. Footage of the living world can infiltrate hearts and minds, going far beyond the reach of facts and figures alone. In making use of the incredible potential of photography, we must also be sensitive to its repercussions on the world we are capturing. 

We knew the positive outcomes of sharing these stories would be great, but also that this should not come at the expense of further harming the Earth on our journey to helping her. The Complete Collection from We Feed The UK is displayed on natural, low-impact, and recyclable materials.

The Gaia Foundation has been working with regenerative, holistic approaches to reviving biocultural diversity for almost forty years.

Established in the 1980s as a response to Indigenous peoples’ displacement from forests in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon, Gaia has become a well-respected voice of experience working on issues ranging from land rights to restoring regenerative pathways, from the Amazon to Africa.

Through our dedicated Seed Sovereignty UK and Ireland Programme, which has eight team members working regionally, we have become firmly embedded, with our hands in the soil, across the UK’s food sovereignty movement.