Every year YFoEE organises placements at Caerhys Organic Farm in Wales, where volunteers get the opportunity to learn about organic, community farming and participate in anti-GMO activism. Tosca Boot, from the Netherlands, is one month into her three month placement. Four weeks ago I left my ordinary Dutch life to give it a try: working …
Podcast: 10 years of Young FoEE!
To mark ten years of Young Friends of the Earth Europe, we spoke to some of the key people who’ve been involved since it started up in 2007. From those who set it up and coordinated it from the start to the steering group members and volunteers who bring it to life, we’re looking back …
Gas Extraction in Groningen
On Thursday the 3rd of August, around 80 European and African young people from the Young Friends of the Earth network visited the province of Groningen in The Netherlands. In order to understand the devastating effects of gas extraction, the group went on an excursions which took them along affected communities and the biggest gas …
The Food Fight!
Myrto from Cyprus A few months ago, YFoEE’s Food and Agriculture Working Group decided to refocus their work and launched the Food Sovereignty campaign. The campaign encompasses a wider range of topics ranging from Community Supported Agriculture to fighting against mega-mergers and land grabbing. The choice of “Food Sovereignty” as the focus of the …
The Road to Summer Camp!
And we’re off! YFoEE Summer Camp #7 has started! We are in a hostel in a beautiful forest in the north of the Netherlands. We have already had sessions to introduce Young Friends of the Earth Europe and Young Friends of the Earth Africa. We have heard stories from participants from Armenia, Russia, South …
Summer camp teaser: non-violent direct action
Peter Kodde, a long-time Dutch eco-activist, will be showing us what strong NVDA looks like. If you’re planning on going to the 2017 YFoEE Summer Camp then you probably already know a bit about non-violent direct action (NVDA). But, did you know that the first recorded labour strike was a NVDA and occurred in Ancient …
Summer Camp Teaser: Food Sovereignty
We interviewed Kaya Thomas, who will be running a workshop on food sovereignty at our upcoming summer camp. Check out what she had to say below! Kaya Thomas is from Germany’s Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (AbL) which is an association of farmers resisting the political pressure towards ever fewer, more industrialized farms. How would you define …
Leveling up – agri-activism blog #2
Last year, four young people from across Europe spent the summer volunteering on a cooperatively-run organic farm in Wales, learning first-hand how sustainable local farming works, and how to campaign against GMOs and pesticides at the local level. This summer, the project is back – and our first volunteer, Juta from Estonia, shares her experiences …
Hello Earth, this is Wales: our agri-activism volunteers return
Last year, four young people from across Europe spent the summer volunteering on a cooperatively-run organic farm in Wales, learning first-hand how sustainable local farming works, and how to campaign against GMOs and pesticides at the local level. This summer, the project is back – and our first volunteer, Juta from Estonia, shares her first …
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Agri-activism volunteering
Every summer, we pair up four volunteers with placements on a beautiful, community-supported organic farm in Wales. But this isn’t ordinary WWOOFing – the farm is run by Gerald Miles, a prominent campaigner who has been at the heart of the anti-GM movement in the UK for decades. Volunteers get hands-on experience in working on …