screened at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, 2026

In January 2026, we screened a short film at the Oxford Real Farming Conference as part of the Justice Strand, a programme exploring land, food and community through the lens of justice and resistance.

The film tells the story of Paradise Cooperative: how a neglected piece of land in Wandsworth became a thriving community garden, and what that means for the people who come here. It explores our work in community building, the networks of care and mutual support that have grown up around the garden, and how all of this connects to wider questions of land justice, food sovereignty and what it means for urban communities to have genuine access to green space.

The film centres on the garden’s unusual position: a green space that has grown on land owned by HMP Wandsworth, one of the largest prisons in Europe. It follows the people who come here (volunteers, community members, growers) and asks what it means to tend land, build relationships and find belonging in a place shaped by such different histories.

We are proud to share it here for the first time.

Running time: 14 minutes and 50 seconds.

Beyond the Prison Fence was made with the generous participation of the volunteers, community members and partners who gave their time to be interviewed and filmed. We are deeply grateful to everyone who shared their stories and their relationship with the garden.

Special thanks to our filmmaker, director and producer Jackie Turner, whose care and dedication brought this film to life. Thank you also to the panellists at the Oxford Real Farming Conference: Jesse Noon, Ali Anderson, Brendan Conway and Sumayyah Zannath. And to Land In Our Names and the ORFC for hosting the strand and the conversation.