Building on the spirit of the inaugural Listening to the Land gathering, the 2026 Listening to the Land Day offered an expanded programme – with more workshops, more ceremony, more conversations, and more opportunities to connect with others who feel a pull to listen more deeply to the land.

The 2026 Listening to the Land day explored what it means to have a reciprocal relationship with the natural world, and how this relationship can support a transformation of our food and farming system. Together with 300 delegates, we created a space for discussions of the land as sacred, as intelligent and as having agency. Discussions, workshops and rituals looking at how we can acknowledge and make visible that long-forgotten part ourselves, that knows intuitively how to connect with and be guided by the more-than-human.

The programme for the Listening to the Land day 2026 was brought together with eight organisational partners (Animate Earth, British Pilgrimage Trust, Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), Go Grow With Love, Landworkers’ Alliance, Right to Roam, Schumacher College, Shumei International, and St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace), but many more people have been involved, either directly in the event or as a result of the work they have dedicated themselves to over the years. 

Explore the programme from the gathering and a selection of Listening to the Land day 2026 sessions below.