English The planning for The Landworkers’ Alliance calendar 2021 calendar took place against the tumultuous backdrop of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, Brexit, and political moves to renegotiate and deregulate our trade and agricultural policies. Each of these significant events and movements have highlighted in their own way the insecurities in our food systems, and the inequalities that exist across our health and wellbeing. We don’t just need something different in our food system; we need a transformation.
Heading into 2021, we wantedto showcase places and people – across uplands and lowlands, in forests and fields, across Wales, Scotland and England – that are already embodying the transformation we so desperately need.
At the heart of the transformation is agroecology, and we highlighted Landworkers’ Alliance member farms and collectives who are breathing life into the agroecological principles that we believe hold the keys to a just future, bringing them off the page and into reality. We selected each member farm or project that embodied one of the 10 agroecological principles. For the remaining two months, we chose to highlight the important principles of Co-operation and Reparative Justice.”
The colour palette for this calendar was muted oranges and yellows, and the calendar was printed on a natural brown paper.
The calendar also contained the following dedication:
“To all of the growers, farmers, land workers, foresters, fuel producers and fibre makers, who are working to build something different, something better, this calendar is also dedicated to you.”
The Projects Highlighted in the 2021 Another Farm is Possible Calendar were:
2021 Front Cover – A close up of a large basket of all kinds of fresh produce in the arms of a person wearing an apron. This image also appeared alongside the story for Plaw Hatch Farm
2021 Llafur Ni – August – A hand in the foreground holding strands of wheat. Rolling hills of crops appear in the background
2021 Wakelyns – December – Shows Martin Wolfe standing in a wheat field facing away, with the sun above and a row of trees on the horizon.
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