RTF Spring Gathering posters - spread far and wide 'cuz spring hath arrived

Tue Feb 28 13:03:11 GMT 2012

RTF posters!!! attached...

Reclaim the Fields Spring Gathering
@ The Wilderness Centre, Mitcheldean, Forest of 
Dean, Gloucestershire, GL17 0HA

The first Reclaim the Fields Gathering of 2012 
will be taking place this March 8th and 9th at 
the Wilderness Centre in the Forest of Dean.

Pre-Gathering Help needed:

Anyone interested in helping out with the 
running/ setting up of the event, should come to 
the Wilderness asap. If you're interested in 
giving a talk, or demonstrating a skill - get in 
contact, or just show up and arrange to use one 
of the "spaces" available with one of the Protect The Wilderness Crew.

The provisional timetable includes:

Thursday 8th:

*Introduction to Reclaim the Fields - where we've 
come from and recent action, including feedback from the European Gathering.
* Wilderness Centre introduction & housekeeping
*Open Introductions; introduce your self & your 
projects & continue networking with our noticeboard

The remainder of the day is designed around open 
spaces, giving people a chance to work & 
communicate around these suggestions so far:

*WWOLF (woofing with teeth) and Reclaim the Field Trips
*Seed Sovereignty & grower-to-grower seed distribution networks
*Carrots session e.g. RTF internal structure/sharing workloads
*Using the food sovereignty principles as a 
strategic framework - (in a UK context)
*How to organise & maintain effective land occupations
*Composting gender
*Planning for International Peasants Day of Struggle on April 17th
*Legal options for accessing land
*Protecting bee populations

Friday 9th:

*Session on general Reclaim the Fields strategy and focuses for 2012
Workshops and talks:
*An introduction to land rights ?*History of Land 
rights struggles in the Forest of Dean

Followed by a consensus based guerilla gardening 
action... remains open to suggestions!?(ideas so far...)
*Food forest, in an abandoned quarry
*Care home for the elderly?* Clear-felled 
Forestry land?* Victorian walled garden

Saturday 10th:

Protect The Wilderness open skill-share day!
Seed swap, Community bring and share.
Gardening the organic community garden, and walled garden.
Music and feasting!

Not forgetting gardening, charcoal burning, 
baking in the cob oven, seedbomb making, cobbing 
the round-house, and chopping wood through-out!

£5 suggested donation per day, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Items to bring: Warm clothes, two sets (if you 
mind being muddy) ?bedding, camping mats?tools 
for g-gardening [spades, forks, mattocks, billhooks]
Instruments, dancing shoes,? seeds for seedbombs, 
?home-grown veg, pickles, jams, whole foods

More info about the Wilderness Centre:
[]
 <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Wilderness-Centre-Forest-of-Dean/321890141176064>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Wilderness-Centre-Forest-of-Dean/321890141176064 

Who to contact for more information: use the RTF UK email list or email
[]
 <mailto:frankynecklace at yahoo.co.uk>frankynecklace at yahoo.co.uk 
Reclaim the Fields Spring Gathering
@ The Wilderness Centre, Mitcheldean, Forest of 
Dean, Gloucestershire, GL17 0HA

The first Reclaim the Fields Gathering of the 
year will be taking place this March 8th and 9th 
at the Wilderness Centre in the Forest of Dean.

Pre-Gathering Help needed:

Anyone interested in helping out with the 
running/ setting up of the event, should come to 
the Wilderness asap. If you're interested in 
giving a talk, or demonstrating a skill - get in 
contact, or just show up and arrange to use one 
of the "spaces" available with one of the Protect The Wilderness Crew.

The provisional timetable includes:

Thursday 8th:

*Introduction to Reclaim the Fields - where we've 
come from and recent action, including feedback from the European Gathering.
* Wilderness Centre introduction & housekeeping
*Open Introductions; introduce your self & your 
projects & continue networking with our noticeboard

The remainder of the day is designed around open 
spaces, giving people a chance to work & 
communicate around these suggestions so far:

*WWOLF (woofing with teeth) and Reclaim the Field Trips
*Seed Sovereignty & grower-to-grower seed distribution networks
*Carrots session e.g. RTF internal structure/sharing workloads
*Using the food sovereignty principles as a 
strategic framework - (in a UK context)
*How to organise & maintain effective land occupations
*Composting gender
*Planning for International Peasants Day of Struggle on April 17th
*Legal options for accessing land
*Protecting bee populations

Friday 9th:

*Session on general Reclaim the Fields strategy and focuses for 2012
Workshops and talks:
*An introduction to land rights ?*History of Land 
rights struggles in the Forest of Dean

Followed by a consensus based guerilla gardening 
action... remains open to suggestions!?(ideas so far...)
*Food forest, in an abandoned quarry
*Care home for the elderly?* Clear-felled 
Forestry land?* Victorian walled garden

Saturday 10th:

Protect The Wilderness open skill-share day!
Seed swap, Community bring and share.
Gardening the organic community garden, and walled garden.
Music and feasting!

Not forgetting gardening, charcoal burning, 
baking in the cob oven, seedbomb making, cobbing 
the round-house, and chopping wood through-out!

£5 suggested donation per day, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Items to bring: Warm clothes, two sets (if you 
mind being muddy) ?bedding, camping mats?tools 
for g-gardening [spades, forks, mattocks, billhooks]
Instruments, dancing shoes,? seeds for seedbombs, 
?home-grown veg, pickles, jams, whole foods

More info about the Wilderness Centre:
[]
 <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Wilderness-Centre-Forest-of-Dean/321890141176064>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Wilderness-Centre-Forest-of-Dean/321890141176064 

Who to contact for more information: use the RTF UK email list or email...

[]
 <mailto:frankynecklace at yahoo.co.uk>frankynecklace at yahoo.co.uk
<mailto:all at protectthewilderness.org.uk>all at protectthewilderness.org.uk

Mob: 07811 726 372

Gourds work be done,

Protect The Wilderness, ?Reclaim the Fields!

==

Background info: Reclaim the Fields is a 
constellation of people and collective projects 
willing to go back to the land and reassume the 
control over food production. We are determined 
to create alternatives to capitalism through 
cooperative, collective, autonomous, real needs 
oriented small scale production and initiatives, 
putting theory into practice and linking local 
practical action with global political struggles.
You can find more about us, our struggles & more 
resources such as downloadable zines here: 
<http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk>www.reclaimthefields.org.uk

Related Link:
[]
 <http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk/spring-gathering-2012/>http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk/spring-gathering-2012/

Gourds work be done,

Protect The Wilderness, ?Reclaim the Fields!

==

Background info: Reclaim the Fields is a 
constellation of people and collective projects 
willing to go back to the land and reassume the 
control over food production. We are determined 
to create alternatives to capitalism through 
cooperative, collective, autonomous, real needs 
oriented small scale production and initiatives, 
putting theory into practice and linking local 
practical action with global political struggles.
You can find more about us, our struggles & more 
resources such as downloadable zines here: 
<http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk>www.reclaimthefields.org.uk

Related Link:
[]
 <http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk/spring-gathering-2012/>http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk/spring-gathering-2012/

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