The Food Programme   /     The power of poems to connect us to food

Description

Getting people to engage with food and ideas for agricultural change can be really difficult - but that’s the hope of a major new arts project called We Feed The UK. Farmers, poets and photographers have collaborated to tell ten stories to celebrate custodians of land, seed, soil and sea from all corners of the country. The project is being coordinated by the charity The Gaia Foundation – with a mission to elevate stories of farms and food producers that show positive solutions to climate change, the biodiversity crisis and social justice in the food system.Jimi Famurewa joins conversations between farmers, food producers and poets, who are collaborating as a part of the project, to hear a selection of these poems and ask how poetry can help the public think twice about how food is grown.Presented by Jimi Famurewa and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol

Subtitle
Farmer's stories through the eyes of poets – can it make us care how our food is grown?
Duration
1680
Publishing date
2024-02-26 08:57
Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wq36
Contributors
  BBC Radio 4
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Enclosures
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