“To protect the land, we must first love it. If we don’t love, we cannot protect.
We only come to love the land if we allow ourselves time to connect and touch its rhythms”
-Suzy Russell
A Journey of Gratitude
The Journey of Gratitude, in collaboration with filmmaker Alberto Balazs weaves a journey throughout the UK, visiting those that care and tend to the land and those that feed us.
We travelled with practices of listening and gratitude. We travelled with offerings and as we listened, stories began to emerge, stories woven between people, animals, elements and landscapes. Stories that we careful spun into a film piece and final day of gratitude at 42 acres.
The project was supported by The A Team Foundation. Marking its fifteenth year as a grant giver and investor in life giving, regenerative, agroecological food systems.
Gratitude to the many land tenders throughout the UK who we visited and to Anthony Uusher for edible offerings throughout our journey.
Gratitude to all those we visited: Black Mountains College, Planton Farm, Off-Grid Organics, John & Sarah Whittick Cider Apple Trees, Tree Nursery & Farm, Wyvern Fields, Granville Community Kitchen, Suzy Russell, The Community Supported Agriculture CSA Network UK, Pete Russell, Ooooby, Soul Farm, The Real Farming Trust, The Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty Programme UK & Ireland Team, Kindling Farm , The Nimatullahi Sufi Order, Dan Fox Two Acre Farm, Penpont, ELC Ecological Land Cooperative
Gratitude to land and sky: The River Ennig, Troed-yr-Harn, Black Mountains, Brecon beacons, Mendip hills. Somerset levels, Trefusis Estate, The sea at Flushing, Liverpool, Kilburn