FoodFutures invites you to join one of the many ‘Spring into Action’ events this April and May.
From Friday 25 April until Friday 2 May FoodFutures is coordinating a series of workshops and events that invites people and organisations across Lancaster District to ‘Spring Into Action’ around creating a thriving local food system that is healthy, resilient and fair.
The week will kick off with an ‘Intro to good facilitation and sociocracy’ with Jay Godden from Eggcup and Anna Clayton from LESS as “The revolution will be well facilitated!.” Good facilitation and sociocracy are key to supporting the workings of FoodFutures, and in supporting innovative, horizontal, decision making processes. This session should offer some tools and inspiration to support you in enhancing the quality of meetings, decision making and governance of your community project.
Saturday 26 April and Sunday 27 April are packed with a diversity of different sessions: from practical hands-on workshops, through to scheming, craft activities and knowledge sharing. You could choose to join some of the FoodFutures network (including food champions, compost champions, gleaners and citizen journalists) in Morecambe Library to help shape the networks’ movement building approaches. Or take part in the ‘bury your pants’ initiative as part of Fashion Revolution activities; visit the Plot market garden for a tour and work session or join local artist Sarah Hymas and Friends of Freeman’s Wood Trustee Shawn Duckers to help map the real history of the Marsh and Freeman’s Wood in Lancaster. And then there’s a Farm on the Fell tour, a working with community groups training session at Claver Hill community food project; and a foraging and sporting workshop in Halton.
The Sunday evening also offers something unusual: a grief circle. We are living at a time of desperate and deepening sadness. While our human community endures endless suffering, and our fellow species are driven to extinction, the very living systems of our beautiful planet-home are dying. And we stand by as witnesses to this loss-beyond-words. This session is for those who feel drawn to share their sorrows; and to draw deeply on the well of wisdom of our ancestors.
The following week includes a range of delicious activities, from a beans and pulses Ukrainian Feast, a Share The Harvest open information session, a cooking on a budget workshop at Carnforth food hub, and a Rhubarb themed ‘Taste of Home’ cooking workshop.
FoodFutures is also organising a Spring Into Action special FoodFutures partnership meeting online where the North Lancs is Golden campaign will be introduced alongside the usual working group updates.
For those interested in stretching their minds, the unnamed bookclub will meet on Tuesday evening to discuss a podcast, the Food Justice Partnership are hosting a panel on the food ladders approach, and the week will end with a Re-commoning community think tank workshop and shared meal.
