The Landworkers’ Alliance is a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers.
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If you have any comments, critiques, considerations, compliments, complaints, about anything the Landworkers Alliance is or isn’t up to, do let us know your thought. We love feedback, it keeps a system healthy. Please fill in this quick form.

Membership / Supporter / Donation Queries

Please contact Lauren.Simpson@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Requests for work, volunteering or internships

We are currently not recruiting for any roles but please read our newsletters for any announcements. We currently do not offer any volunteer or internship placements directly with the LWA, but keep an eye out in the newsletter or on the forum for any members looking for volunteers or workers.

Academic/Research Enquiries

Please look at the Agroecology Research Collaboration to see if it fits your area of research/work.

Membership Support / Advice

Currently the LWA does not have capacity or resources to help individual members or potential members on their specific projects, farms or programmes. We get a lot of requests for individual support and would love to have the time to respond to each request in full. We are fundraising for a new role for somebody to focus on membership support and services as we have identified it is a gap in our offering so please watch this space. Having said that, if your query is critical and urgent please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk including the word URGENT in the subject header and it will get picked up and we can try our best to help.

Contacting Individual Staff

Please take the time to explore our staff page here to see who the most relevant contact for your enquiry is.

Our addresses format is firstname.lastname@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Please bear in mind we all work part time and have limited capacity to respond to enquiries outside our core areas of work.

You can also find information under the About Us header about branch and regional organising, and identity groups within the LWA membership.

Press/Media Enquiries:

For any queries relating to press please email press@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Merchandise/calendar Enquiries

For any enquiries to do with shop sales including the calendar please email merchandise@landworkersalliance.org.uk

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You can fill in this quick form to submit it to be included in the next bulletin/newsletter. The deadline to submit is the end of Friday each week for the following week’s member bulletin. With the same form you can also submit to the monthly non-member newsletter which goes out in the first week of the month.

All Other Enquiries:

For any other enquiries that are URGENT please email info@landworkersalliance.org.uk with the word ‘urgent’ in the subject header and we will do our best to help.

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Meet the Team

Dee Butterly

Training, Education and Programmes Coordinator

Dee Butterly has been working with the Landworkers’ Alliance since 2017 and currently oversees our training, education and creative programme work. Dee is also a founding member and farmer at Southern Roots Organics CSA since 2015. Prior to working with the LWA Dee was coordinator and researcher for A People’s Food Policy.
Jyoti Fernandes

Coordinating Group
Campaigns and Policy Coordinator

Jyoti is an agrecological smallholder farmer based in Dorset, UK. The farm runs a micro dairy and produces a wide range of products from cheese and meats to cider, juice and preserves. The farm is part of a local smallholders cooperative that shares collective processing facilities and markets the products of the members’ smallholdings collectively. Jyoti coordinates the Policy, Lobbying and Campaigning work of the LWA.
Adam Payne

Coordinating Group
Governance and New Entrants Policy Coordinator

Adam is a cofounder and grower at Southern Roots Organics, a diverse market garden running a CSA and local wholesale in Devon / Dorset / Somerset. He has previously managed a mixed Organic livestock farm and was a coordinator and spokesperson for the European Coordination of Via Campesina (ECVC) in 2014-2016. Adam works on finances, fundraising and governance of the LWA and coordinates Policy, Lobbying and Campaigning on issues concerning New Entrants.
Lauren Simpson

Membership Secretary

Lauren is a new entrant landworker in West Wales with her partner Phil working on setting up a market garden to provide ingredients for their fermented foods business Parc y Dderwen as part of a mixed small holding under the Welsh ‘One Planet Development’ planning policy. Lauren also works for the Ecological Land Co-operative and before taking on the role of LWA Membership Secretary in January 2019 she was the LWA Membership Database Coordinator for the past year.
Steph Wetherell

Media and Comms Coordinator
Mentoring Programme Coordinator

After spending a couple of years farming in the UK and Canada, Steph works part time supporting small scale producers in and around Bristol with accessing land, skills and markets. She also writes about food and farming for a number of different websites and magazines, working to connect people with where their food comes from. As Farm Start Network Coordinator Steph is working to build a network of farms and organisations offering farm-start opportunities.
Rebecca Laughton

Horticulture Campaigns Coordinator

Rebecca has many years experience in small scale farming and currently runs an Organic market garden at Tamarisk Farm in Dorset. She has worked on a number of research projects in the past and wrote ‘Surviving and Thriving on the Land: How to use your time and energy to run a successful smallholding’. Rebecca works on Policy, Lobby and Campaigning and coordinates the Horticulture Campaign.
Olly Craigan

Coordinating Group
Woodland and Forestry Coordinator

Olly Craigan is a forester, coppice worker and charcoal maker based in North Pembrokeshire.
Roz Corbett

Coordinating Group
COP26 Coordinator

Roz is a market gardener and beekeeper based in Glasgow in Scotland and works for the LWA on coordination of our work around COP26 and supporting a La Via Campesina delegation to COP. She previously worked at Taybank Growers Cooperative in Perthshire and is also a founder member of the Scottish Farm Land Trust. Roz is also studying part-time for a PhD with Aberdeen University and the James Hutton Institute, looking at the community land ownership and new entrants in Scotland.
Holly Tomlinson

Cymru Policy Coordinator
Cymru Coordinating Group

Holly has been on the Coordination Team of LWA Cymru since the 2017. She coordinated the LWA Cymru response to the Welsh Government’s consultation on post Brexit agricultural policy “Brexit & Our Land”. She is working on the follow up consultation “Sustainable Farming & our Land” and hopes to increase the visibility of LWA Cymru members.She has been a director of Tyddyn Teg Vegetable Cooperative since June 2017. Previoulsy she worked on responding to government energy policy for Ecotricity. She now works part time for a community energy organisation Energy Local CIC and is also involved in climate activism.
Dee Woods

Coordinating Group
Food Justice Policy Coordinator

Dee Woods is a food and farming action-ist and campaigner, who advocates for good food for all and a more just and equitable food system. She challenges the systemic barriers that impact marginalised communities, farmers and food producers. Her work meets at the nexus of poverty and hunger, human rights, food sovereignty, community development, policy, research, climate and social justice.
Lise Masson

Events Coordinator

Lise is joining the LWA team as Events Coordinator after helping put together the 2020 AGM. Joining from a climate justice organising and campaigning background, she's excited to draw the links between climate justice and food sovereignty, and to organise powerful and inspiring events within the LWA. When not behind her laptop, Lise usually spends her time baking bread, hunting the best wild swimming spots, and engaging in various activist spaces.
Charlotte Steel

Coordinating Group
HR Coordinator

Charlotte has been a member of the LWA for a few years now and is always inspired by how practical, passionate and proactive an organisation it is. At this pivotal point in UK agriculture she hopes to contribute to the vital policy and campaigning work – highlighting how important smaller-scale, agroecological producers are to achieving a fairer food system for people and planet.
Natalia Szarek

Membership Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator

Natalia is excited about the intersection of radical system change and land work, and over the past 15 years she been active in feminist, environmental and anti-fascist social movements as well as working with London community food projects. In 2019 Natalia spent a year working with the revolutionary movement in Rojava, North East Syria, where she did lots of gardening and learned about the intersection of ecology, women's liberation and grassroots democracy.
Georgie Styles

New Entrants Campaigns Officer

Georgie is a Food Anthropologist and advocate for community-led food systems worldwide. She has worked on a number of farms and land-based projects around the world and previously coordinated the food, seed and climate resilience projects at the Gaia Foundation, including the photography initiative, We Feed the World and a women-led agroecological training and traditional farming wisdom project in Zimbabwe. She is the founder of a podcast channel, Frontline Food, which was born out of lockdown in 2020 in search of the truth behind our food systems. Georgie now also works part-time for the LWA on campaigns and policy for new entrants to farming and forestry.
Oli Rodker

Coordinating Group

As well as being on the coordinating group of LWA, Oli is a Director of the Ecological Land Co-operative, where he is Site Development manager. He has worked on a range of environmental campaigns and for numerous land-based businesses for the last 30 years. He is also a woodworker and barn builder.
Ruth Hancock

Coordinating Group

Ruth founded and has been lead grower at Fresh and Green, a 5 acre market garden in East Devon since its establishment 20 years ago.
Gerald Miles

Coordinating Group

Gerald has farmed at Caerhys with his family for over fifty years. The farm is a mixed Organic farm in Pembrokeshire growing heritage grain crops, vegetables and Welsh Black suckler beef herd and pigs. The farm formed the first CSA in Wales – www.coca-csa.org. Gerald has been involved as an Activist against GM Crops and Agri-Businesses for many years.
Beth Stewart

Coordinating Group

Beth is an urban and peri-urban organic veg grower based in London who occasionally makes forays into teaching, facilitating, fundraising, lobbying, community building and writing. They currently work at Granville Community Kitchen, doing project coordination and supporting the start up of an economically accessible veg box scheme, and at Crop Drop, growing veg for the veg box scheme. They are passionate about making good food, good farming jobs, and good land accessible to all.
Kate McEvoy

Coordinating Group
Cymru Coordinating Group

Kate McEvoy has been an active member of the Landworkers’ Alliance since 2014, and is one of the three LWA Cymru co-ordinators.She’s a founder member of the Real Seed Catalogue and has been growing and selling vegetable seed since 1998. She also spends time writing, teaching and campaigning around issues of seed sovereignty within the UK.
Alice Taherzadeh

Cymru Coordinating Group

Alice is a community food activist, facilitator, and an agroecology researcher. Their activist and research work is based on the belief that we can create empowering, critical, and non-hierarchical spaces of learning and action through grassroots organising. They are currently undertaking a PhD looking at how social movement learning practices work to further agroecology in the UK. They are actively involved in community food organising where they are based in Cardiff as well as across Wales. Alice hopes that they can create useful resources on agroecological learning from their research and support farmer-to-farmer learning and organising in the LWA Cymru regional group.
Katie Hastings

Cymru Coordinating Group

Katie Hastings is the Wales Coordinator for the UK and Ireland Seed Sovereignty Programme. She works with growers and farmers on the ground to increase seed diversity and seed system resilience. Katie is a co founder of community food growing organisation Mach Maethlon in Mid Wales. She coordinates the horticultural farmstart programme Pathways to Farming, working with new entrants to food growing and local businesses. In her free time she is a ‘patchwork farmer’, growing wheat, oats and potatoes with local farmers. She has a new found passion for small scale oat processing machinery.

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