 I'm Andrew Church from the Department of Geography at the University of Brighton. We've worked for many years with a range of communities on urban food growing and rural food growing. Groups of people who are trying to develop new ways of growing food through communal ownership and community farms. I think what we're hoping to get out of this project is working with people who have developed projects around community woodlands, community greenspace and sharing ideas with them on new ways of owning land for community benefit so communities can engage with a natural environment to develop new products and experiences that are of value to those communities. I think at the moment what's happened in the last 10 years in Britain is there has been a dramatic growth in new forms of community ownership relating to the natural environment. We've seen a flourishing of community gardens in Britain's cities, community food growing spaces allotments but we've also got new community-owned hydroelectricity schemes and an emergence of community farms as well. I think this is a new phenomenon that isn't fully understood. We don't really understand what communities and people want to get out of these new forms of community engagement with the natural environment and I don't think we fully understand their impacts on the environmental movement and on our landscape as well. Eco-cultural production is about groups of people and organisations working with the natural environment to produce a whole range of phenomenon. It could be objects made from the natural environment out of wood or whatever but often it's meanings and experiences so it's developing a sense of place, a sense of meaning for people through a new piece of green infrastructure or it might be developing experiences so people can engage with the natural environment whether it's through food growing or volunteering. So it's about people working with the natural environment to produce things that other people want but what we're particularly interested in is ways of eco-cultural production that are community-owned not just run by individuals or for profit companies but new forms of ownership that are trying to develop a new engagement with the natural environment.