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15/06/2026

Get your hoes out and STAND UP NOW!

This is exactly what we did over the weekend at the wonderful Green Scythe Fair where we finally met up with a big inspiration of ours, who got us all fired up leading a procession through the fair. We’re singing an old English rebel song called “The Diggers Song” written in 1642 during the peak of the enclosures acts which forced land workers off the common land they had worked for generations. The song talks about how lawyers, the clergy and the gentry together formed a system of oppression to cheat us off our ground! The very ground we are just starting to reconnect with today!

The lawyers they conjoin
Stand up now, stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin
Stand up now
To arrest you they advise
Such fury they devise
The devil in them lies
And hath blinded both their eyes
Stand up now, stand up now

The clergy they come in
Stand up now, stand up now
The clergy they come in
Stand up now
The clergy they come in
And say it is a sin
That we should now begin
Our freedom for to win
Stand up now, Diggers all

The gentry are all round
Stand up now, stand up now
The gentry are all round
Stand up now
The gentry are all round
On each side they are found
Their wisdom so profound
To cheat us of our ground
Stand up now, stand up now

02/06/2026

We knowingly poison our own food so other critters can’t eat it! Let that sink in. I think it’s a bit mad that most of us are probably more comfortable eating food covered in poison than something a slug or a beetle has had a little nibble at. These holes are a good sign, it tells you this vegetable is actually edible! So welcome the imperfections, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is!

The words we choose can open doors to deeper conversations about history, community, and the kind of food systems we wan...
29/05/2026

The words we choose can open doors to deeper conversations about history, community, and the kind of food systems we want to build going forward. The phrases we use every day carry a lot more history and meaning than we sometimes realise.

This isn’t about policing language or telling anyone which words they can or can’t use. We’re certainly in no position to do that - we use all these phrases ourselves. But as we’ve spent more time on the land and learn more about the systems around it, we’ve realised how often complex ideas get squeezed into simple buzzwords.

So this post is less about getting the language “right”, and more about opening the conversation. Because the more we understand the stories behind the words, the better chance we have of building food systems rooted in care, community, and a bit more honesty about how we got here. 🌱

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