We Feed the World is a storytelling campaign, showcasing the small-scale farmers and fishers who produce 70% of the world’s food on less than a quarter of its farmland. In 2018, over 300 photographs featuring 50 examples of agroecology in action were exhibited around the world, engaging an audience of 55 million people.
This year the project is evolving into We Feed The UK: celebrating the folk who nourish these isles at a critical moment for the future of British farming. The time is ripe for a just food system that nourishes the Earth and all of her inhabitants.
We popped up with photographer Louis Little, at the planet’s largest agroecological gathering – the 2023 Oxford Real Farming Conference – to capture the portraits of UK sowers, growers, farmers and allies. Meet them all below.
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- Simon Fairlie, The Land Magazine
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- Nikki Yoxall, Grampian Graziers / Pasture for Life
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- Fred Bonestroo, Close Farm Organics
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- Jon McCosh, Kingsbeck Ltd
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- Iain and Tamara Tolhurst, Tolhurst Organics
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- Jayne Arnold, Oxton Organics
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- Vandana Shiva
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- Ella Tutton and Sandra Magee, Gold Hill Organic Farm
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- Peter Brown, Tablehurst Farm
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- Rebecca Mayhew, Old Hall Farm
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- Katherine Langton, Langtons Farm
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- Rupert Griffin, Hannah Fenton Griffin and Gabriel, Tiddly Pommes Ltd.
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- Rebecca Sunang-Joret
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- Esther Cooper-Wood and Daphne Du Cros, Little Woodbatch
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- Forrest Hogg, Penpont
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- Beatrice Fettes, Wantonwells Farm
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- Sara Cross, Gold Hill Organic Farm
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- Pamela Shor, Black Roots / Knowledge Unity Movement
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- Dawn Dublin, Black Butterfly / Joyful Roots
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- Street Goat
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- Bridget Murphy, Talamh Beo
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- Fred Price, Gothelney Farm and Rosy Benson, Field Bakery
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- Fred Groom, Vital Seeds
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- Matthew Adams, Growing Real Food for Nutrition CIC
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- Gerald Miles, Caerhys Organic Community Agriculture
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- Rachael Durrant, University of Sussex
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- Darina Allen, Ballymaloe Cookery School
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- Martin Lines, Nature Friendly Farming Network
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- Andy Redfearn and Jools Lawton, Brighton CSA – Fork and Dig It
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- Ian Boyd, Whittington Lodge Farm
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- Sparrow, Jacki and Willow Middleton, Tolhurst Organics
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- Hannah Thorogood, The Inkpot Organic Farm
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- Kate Hughes, Wood Advent Farm
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- Laura Aldington, Broughton Growers
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- Seed Sistas
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- Esme Armour, Arkwright Meadows Community Garden
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- Katie Hastings, UK & Ireland Seed Sovereignty Programme
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- Nick Weir, The Open Food Network
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- Catherine Howell, UK & Ireland Seed Sovereignty Programme
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- Richie Walsh, UK & Ireland Seed Sovereignty Programme
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- Sinéad Fortune, UK & Ireland Seed Sovereignty Programme
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- Serim Dinc, Micro Farm and Kitchen Istanbul
Photographs © Louis Little for The Gaia Foundation