Agricultural Land League is a project set within Asele the poorest municipality in Sweden, although almost twice the size of Luxembourg, political centralisation has left this demographic haemorrhaging area of Swedish Lapland without an ambulance service and no public transport, that coupled with decades of declining food outlets in the Municipality and eradication of local farmers the ability to eat has become an issue of motorized ability. For those in the ageing community, no longer able to drive means possibly selling the family home to move to residential accommodation.
The A.L.L. takes a holistic approach and plans to develop a community based food supply system from land to hand grown from Heirloom seeds and sold via farmers markets introduced within the dying villages and distributed to more isolated places with the mobile grocer van concept, any excess produce will be given away in a “food for free” initiative.
The real key to regenerating the rural community is having self-sustaining communities. therefore it’s essential to bring an influx of Young farmers, therefore A.L.L intend to create rent free housing for couples that understand the ideas and practices behind modern permaculture and are enthusiastic about working with the land, at present we are an embryonic organisation and we can only offer two couples this opportunity, obviously we intend to develop more opportunities as we roll out more working models within the community.
The A.L.L. takes a holistic approach and plans to develop a community based food supply system from land to hand grown from Heirloom seeds and sold via farmers markets introduced within the dying villages and distributed to more isolated places with the mobile grocer van concept, any excess produce will be given away in a “food for free” initiative.
The real key to regenerating the rural community is having self-sustaining communities. therefore it’s essential to bring an influx of Young farmers, therefore A.L.L intend to create rent free housing for couples that understand the ideas and practices behind modern permaculture and are enthusiastic about working with the land, at present we are an embryonic organisation and we can only offer two couples this opportunity, obviously we intend to develop more opportunities as we roll out more working models within the community.