Inside the Off-the-Grid Ecovillage Fighting London's Airport Expansion

A couple sits in front of their home in the wooded area of Grow Heathrow. He plays the fiddle in folk and ceilidh bands and takes occasional gardening and landscaping jobs. She is studying for a law degree.

A five-year-old girl sits in the yurt she shares with her father. After spending much of the summer at Grow Heathrow, she will soon start school and begin living elsewhere with her mother.

Foraging Sam (left), nicknamed for his extensive knowledge of edible plants, leads visitors and fellow residents in a foraging workshop. Food sourcing takes up a significant portion of Grow Heathrow residents' lives.

A man dries off after a shower at the Grow Heathrow shower block. The group heats their water using donated wood. The community recently added an indoor shower.

A person sleeps on a couch at the Grow Heathrow site. Visitors come to to the community to learn about its work, participate in workshops and art projects, and listen to monthly open-mic performances.

Salvaged items and vehicles—some decorated and some waiting to be used—sit on the Grow Heathrow site.

Grow Heathrow residents participate in a nettle-eating competition during a harvest festival. Community events, especially those marking the changing of seasons, are frequent with the group.

A resident sits in her living room, decorated with wild flowers.

A Grow Heathrow resident tends to a garden. The community has made its home on the site of a former plant nursery. Some of the land has been left to grow wild, while other parts are carefully managed.

A father washes his daughter at the end of the day.