Interview #18 Gina Bates | Vegan Land Movement

Charlie Moores in conversation with vegan activist and lifelong biophiliac Gina Bates of the Vegan Land Movement. Charlie met up with Gina, whose Twitter handle @hilltopgina reflects the last 17 years spent in a remote area of Sutherland, living very simply without running water and miles from all other amenities and people, at a rather breezy location in the Somerset Levels where the Vegan Land Movement recently bought almost seven acres of former dairy grazing land which they intend - to quote from their website - to "give back to the earth and endangered species in perpetuity". 

Set up as a Community Interest Company or CIC, the Vegan Land Movement intends to repeat the purchase across the UK - which is both inspiring and (given how hard it is to raise funds at the moment) bold. So what motivates Gina, how does she think the organisation can grow and be effective, and why did she not want me to say exactly where in Somerset we were talking...

• Vegan Land Movement Website and Twitter Feed

• Gina Bates Twitter feed

• Sara Elgonquin (VLM Director) Twitter feed