Open Farm Sunday

For King's Ely Geographers this is your annual chance to see some of the place where your food is grown as farms open their gates and welcome visitors.

There are some local farms doing this, including some particularly large farms which are important local employers.

Two weeks until the big day! 👏🥳

LEAF Open Farm Sunday, 11th June 2023 - don't miss out on the opportunity to visit a farm and hear first hand from a farmer about where your food is produced, what they are doing to look after the environment & more! 👇👇https://t.co/JZpwphs1t1 pic.twitter.com/NQb1jeqpsv

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Cultural Geography of the Fens

Thanks to Steve Brace of the RGS-IBG for letting me know about this new addition to the Caught by the River website.

It's a short film which has been made by Rowan Jaines as part of her work on the Cultural Geography of the Fens. It focuses on the Cambridgeshire Fens, through which I travel on a normal work day and have done for the last eight years.

This video essay is part of a four-year research project exploring the cultural geography of the Fen region in the East of England. 

The film is made up of a bricolage of clips of the Fen region, scavenged from the internet and put together in a piecemeal fashion so that the images on screen both intensify and disrupt the linear arc of the narration. 

This is a film that aims to show the Fens as haunted by both the past and those things that have not yet come to be.

OneSoil

One for those teaching about food and farming.

An AI generated map of crops being grown in the USA and Europe.