Thurs 19 Nov / Book Talk with Stephen Hunt

We live at a time of intractable armed conflicts starved of resolution. We inhabit a planet where damaged ecosystems are hungry for restoration. We endure chronic inequalities of wealth and power which crave redistribution. During the past decade, such intertwined factors have precipitated a food crisis, in which increasingly millions experience malnutrition. As elsewhere, the UK is constrained by legacies of structural injustice and failing neoliberal policies. Yet We Must Begin with the Land is not another account of global doom. It explores an abundance of innovative and traditional alternatives for producing food, renewable energies, and organic materials through agroecology.

Using the anti-colonial lens of social ecology, Stephen E. Hunt considers mini real-world case studies for diversifying and democratising how we might grow, share, and eat.

This book talk and conversation was organised with Clemence Scalbert, who trained in in organic horticulture at School Farm CSA in Dartington, in community gardening through the Gardeniser programme and volunteered and worked as an assistant grower on a local organic farm. Clemence runs St Thomas Community Garden and Zero Mile Gardens.

Books will be available on the night. Tickets here: Event ticket: Stephen Hunt – Bookbag Bookshop