Join our union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers to build a future where everybody can access local, healthy, affordable food, fuel and fibre from producers they can trust.
Benefits of membership include:
Why join the Landworkers’ Alliance?
As a member of the Landworkers’ Alliance you will be part of a dynamic, fast growing UK wide union and social movement that is working to improve your livelihood and create a better food and land-use system for everyone.
We are an independent, democratic and member-led union, run by producers for producers. All our policies, representation and training comes from farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers who have direct experiences of the issues we work on. This means you can trust that people representing understand your experiences and that you can influence our proposals and policies.
As well as working on the policy details to improve the situations of our members right now, we also have a bigger vision of a future where people can work with dignity to earn a decent living and everyone can access local, healthy and affordable food, fuel and fibre. We want to create a food and land-use system based on agroecology, food sovereignty and sustainable forestry that furthers social and environmental justice.
Who can join the Landworkers’ Alliance?
Membership of the Landworkers’ Alliance is open to individuals, partnerships, groups and organisations who support the principles of Food Sovereignty and agroecology and are actively engaged, or seeking to become engaged in farming, growing, forestry or other land-based work, including land-based crafts, conservation work, community landwork, food processing and retail – earning (or striving to earn) at least part of your living from this work. We welcome all members, young or old, experienced or new entrants from anywhere in England, Wales (Cymru), Scotland and Northern Ireland.
If you are not sure whether you are eligible for membership, have a look at our full membership criteria.
If you want to support our work but are not actively engaged in land-based work you can join us as a supporter or make a donation.
Membership of the Landworkers’ Alliance is open to individuals, partnerships, groups and organisations in the UK that are engaged in landwork in any of the below sectors as part of earning their living. Plus any new entrant landworkers that are seeking landwork or access to land. By joining as a member you are committing to the principles of Food Sovereignty and Agroecology.
- Agroforestry
- Arable (grain, pulses, fibre)
- Bees
- Community landwork (e.g. working with people/volunteers in community gardens)
- Conservation
- Crafts (using materials from the land e.g woodturning, weaving, dying)
- Crofting
- Fisheries and aquaculture
- Horticulture (herbs and flowers, seeds, soft fruit, top fruit, vegetables)
- Livestock
- Mushrooms
- Processing
- Retail (short local supply chain)
