Towards establishing a Black and People of Colour-led land project, LION functions as an ecosystem builder, creating opportunities for BPOC to connect with the land and each other. We hold workshops and events for BPOC landworkers, organisers and anyone seeking to repair their relationship to land. We skill-share, strategise and build networks of mutual aid and solidarity. 

Through our projects, we work to change the narrative around land and race in Britain, to shed light on the inequalities BPOC face in accessing land, and to reconnect us with ancestral ways of land stewardship. By sharing the stories of Black landworkers and landworkers of Colour, we build power with BPOC on issues around food growing, the environment, and sustainability. We also work with and in support of landworkers’ movements for fair wages and working conditions, which exclude and affect BPOC in land work.  

In our collective, we work actively to interrogate and disrupt systems of power. It is important to us that this includes our internal processes and policies, and that these reflect our values of anti-capitalism, racial justice and collective care. In practice, this means that we work non-hierarchically and make decisions based on consensus to develop ways of working together that support us all. More broadly, we are committed to relearning decolonial systems of knowledge, which teach us ways to live in right relationship with the land and each other.

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