We Feed The UK

How does food shape who we are?

We Feed The UK is a major national exhibition bringing together ten photographers and ten poets to tell ten stories of farmers, fishers, growers and communities transforming the food system across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Through photography and poetry, the exhibition celebrates those working in collaboration with land, water and wildlife.

Curious minds will journey through tales of women in Scotland reclaiming the custodianship of seed, farming, and food that they hold in most Indigenous cultures; of Black-led collectives in London sharing soursop, watermelon, and cane, ripened in glasshouses with the expertise of 80-year-olds who carried agroecology to these isles from their ancestors; and of the soil-inhabiting collaborators of Northumberland, restoring the diversity of vitamins and minerals underground that nourish life above.

These are stories of resilience, justice and repair.

At a time when industrial agriculture contributes to climate breakdown, biodiversity loss and inequality, We Feed The UK offers another vision: one rooted in reciprocity, diversity and care. It asks what might happen if the places where we produce food could nourish all life, not just profit.

Across the exhibition, visitors encounter powerful images and new writing that reconnect us with the food web as the web of life — where climate, culture, ecology, wellbeing and justice are all entwined.

This is an invitation to imagine a different future.
One where food heals people and place.

Featuring:

FOOD JUSTICE: SERVED FRESH FROM COMMUNITY FARMS
Photography by Arpita Shah in collaboration with Photo Fringe
Poetry by Zena Edwards in collaboration with Hot Poets
Inspired by Black Rootz and Go Grow With Love in London

CULTIVATING EQUALITY: WOMEN WORKING WITH LAND
Photography by Sophie Gerrard in collaboration with Street Level Photoworks
Poetry by Iona Lee in collaboration with Hot Poets
Inspired by Lauriston Agroecology Farm and Grampian Graziers in Scotland

UNEARTHED: SOIL RESTORATION IN NORTHUMBERLAND
Photography by Johannah Churchill collaboration with North East Photography Network
Poetry by Kate Fox in collaboration with Hot Poets
Inspired by West Wharmley Farm in Northumberland

About the Project
Grown by The Gaia Foundation with over forty partners, We Feed The UK is an unprecedented alliance between art and agroecology.

By bringing together artists and food producers, the project re-stories farmers and fishers as custodians of soil and sea, and celebrates the communities already creating more regenerative ways of living.

Image: © Arpita Shah, Soilsistar holding Callaloo, Falcon Fields, shot for The Gaia Foundation’s We Feed The UK campaign. Arts Partner, Photo Fringe