A superb article on community ownership of renewables and the wider land justice perspective – “Community energy generates 100x more wealth than corporate counterparts. Energy infrastructure, like political power needs to be radically decentralised.” https://substack.com/home/post/p-171369017 Scotland is in the midst of a renewable energy revolution. It’s a revolution that could (and should) produce clean energy, […]| Three Acres And A Cow
This was one of the best books I read last year and some of the most compelling written and researched non-fiction I have cross paths with in a long time. This page along blew my mind for at least …| Three Acres And A Cow
Our archive of Matthew Remski’s post to Bluesky on June 20, 2025| Three Acres And A Cow
Our archive of Matthew Remski’s post to Bluesky on June 20, 2025 Erica Chenoweth is getting a new wave of attention with a recent appearance on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com and acolytes scorin…| Three Acres And A Cow
During the industrial depression of the late 1930s over 1,000 unemployed miners and ship builders, from the North-East of England and South Wales, were given the opportunity to join Land Settlement Associations and begin new lives as market-gardeners. 20 LSAs were set up across England. The largest was Sidlesham, West Sussex, with 120 smallholdings. This […]| Three Acres And A Cow
This song was found in the Bristol Radical History pamphlet (#6) ‘The Life and Times of Warren James’ about the Forest of Dean enclosures: Arouse ye, free miners, who delve in old Dean,and all ye freeholders with rights o’er its green,‘Tis time to be stirring for danger is nigh;and if ye bestir not, you’ll find […]| Three Acres And A Cow
Here is a 30 min BBC radio documentary about the British state ‘helping’ Scottish gypsy travellers to ‘settle’. Nothing problematic here at all folks… move along, get along. Go, move, shift… “The idea that the UK Government, working in partnership with Scottish local authorities and church groups, could take children from their families and put […]| Three Acres And A Cow
Just two communities bid for right to buy neglected land in five years Jamie Mann from The Ferret in fine form: https://theferret.scot/communities-bid-right-to-buy-neglected-land-5-years/ Just two communities have applied to take neglected land into public ownership since the Scottish Government launched the initiative more than five years ago, The Ferret has found. Since 2018, communities have been […]| Three Acres And A Cow
Arthur and May Hollins began producing yoghourt at Fordhall Farm in 1957, ahead of the multinationals that now control the current dairy market. Arthur Hollins took over the tenancy at Fordhall in 1929 at the tender age of 13, after his father passed away. Following the intensive food production of the war effort, the land […]| Three Acres And A Cow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_of_Wantley This tale about a knight killing a dragon in a suit of Sheffield steel is a thinly veiled attack on the Earl of Shrewsbury (soon to be the Duke of Norfolk), the areas largest landowner and eventually the most senior peer in the realm. In 1573 a lawsuit was taken against the Lord of […]| Three Acres And A Cow
compiled by Barry Thomas of the Melbourne Footpaths Group Thomas Dugmore (1739 – 1820)Dugmore kept the Bull’s Head public house on Potter Street and attacked the enclosure of Melbourne parish with its effects on public roads and paths in an amazing pamphlet written in 1800. He took Lord Melbourne to court when he closed a […]| Three Acres And A Cow
C FThere is a fine gent christened Ru LitherlandC FMulch, sow and then reap C CThere is a fine gent christened Ru Litherland C CAnd he has green fingers on both of his handsC Em7 C F C G CI’ll be good to the land and the land will be good to me With a […]| Three Acres And A Cow
In 1866, Lord Brownlow of Ashridge House tried to enclose a third of Berkhamsted Common by putting in iron fences “without any openings and entirely regardless of public rights of way”. But the Commons Preservation Society got together a bunch of workmen and labourers to come up on a special midnight train from London and […]| Three Acres And A Cow
A Lanthorne for Landlords was published as a broadsheet ballad to the tune of The Duke of Norfolk, and was clearly directed towards a popular audience in the countryside. Its narrative develops themes apparent in some of the earlier works in this section: most notably Robert Crowley’s poem, which ends with the voice of God […]| Three Acres And A Cow
A very old ballad borrowed from the private library of some aristocrat by a friend of Roy Palmer’s, who spent years trying to obtain a copy. Probably connected to the Midland Revolt. You gentlemen that rack your rentes, and throwe downe Land for corneThe tyme will com that som will sigh, that ever they were […]| Three Acres And A Cow
Epping Forest (just outside London) was in the process of being Enclosed and made private in the 19th century, but a campaign of mass trespass forced the government to place it in common hands. The…| Three Acres And A Cow
Our very own Rachel Rose Reid has written and performs a fantastic translation of this sppech which we hope to get recorded sometime soon. In the meantime Michael also does a good job, although I fine many words too detached from modernity to land with the casual listener:| Three Acres And A Cow
Open source post which we found useful and important – https://bit.ly/IndigenousWorldViews – see also Braiding Sweetgrass A message from 10+ Indigenous leaders and organizationsRegenerative Agriculture & Permaculture offer narrow solutions to the climate crisis Introduction Regenerative agriculture and permaculture claim to be the solutions to our ecological crises. While they both borrow practices from Indigenous […]| Three Acres And A Cow
I’ve recently been learning about the failed attempts by the Scottish ruling class to start a new colony in the last 1600s and how this bankrupted them. It was financial ruin caused by this that led to their agreeing (being bribed?) to the formal union of Scotland with England and Wales in 1707 in exchange […]| Three Acres And A Cow
This is delightful, worth the 3 mins just for his suit alone. Part of episode 1 of Jonathan Meades BBC series “Abroad in Britain”, which is available on the BBC DVD “The Jonathan Meades Collection”.| Three Acres And A Cow
Jack Hargreaves had a beautful way of talking about the world around him at a time when the urban and rural were becoming more and more divided. Many episodes of his ‘Old Country’ serie…| Three Acres And A Cow
