UK: From war zones to city plots, grassroots growers are transforming land and lives
From war zones to inner-city London, a new generation of land defenders are digging in – reclaiming soil, space and power through community gardens and regenerative action
By Martin Wright
Positive News
Sept 19, 2025
Excerpt:
People like Mugove Walter Niyaka. His Ubuntu Learning Trust is drawing on ancient African traditions of co-operation to help Zambians left marooned by the pressures of modern life rediscover the joy of growing food, while simultaneously rehabilitating degraded farmland.
And people like Josina Calliste, a founder of London’s LION – Land In Our Names – which is making green waves among the city’s BPOC (black people and people of colour) community.
What they have in common is that, along with 16 other groups, they are recipients of the 2025 Lush Spring Prize. Backed by the natural cosmetics company of the same name, this has awarded £250,000 to pioneers in regenerative living.
What they also have in common is that most are far from the typical image of the (middle-class, usually white), environmental activist. Volkova, for example, is a single mother in a war zone; Calliste a black woman from inner London – a demographic rarely reached by mainstream green campaigns. They certainly hadn’t reached her. What had, though, was the power of a garden to heal and restore: burnt out from her work as a sexual health advisor specialising in the black community, she found respite in the May Project – a community interest company (CIC) based in Morden, south London, which helped local people engage with growing their own food.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/uk-from-war-zones-to-city-plots-grassroots-growers-are-transforming-land-and-lives/
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