Mira Illeris and Esben Schultz live in Denmark at Reforest Farm, where they work with food forests, chicken forests and nut forests, and where they have built their off-grid straw-bale house and hold courses. The farm is located in a cluster of six cooperating permaculture farms, ‘Skovvirke’, which they started in 2011 and received planning
Wilf Richards is a permaculture designer, and a Senior Tutor for the British permaculture diploma system. He is co-founder of the worker’s coop Abundant Earth, The Land of Roots CIC and Green Durham CIC and has been co-managing a cooperative smallholding business near Durham City with friends since 2001. The ongoing learning about land, integration
The British Society for the History of Pharmacy has awarded the Leslie Matthews Medal to Dr Anne Stobart. She is an expert on seventeenth-century domestic medicine and has carried out research on historical medicinal recipes. It has been six years since the BSHP last awarded the Leslie Matthews Medal, its highest honour, for original and
Morgan Phillips is Global Action Plan’s Director of Education and Youth Engagement, and a former co-director of climate change adaptation charity, The Glacier Trust, with whom he continues to volunteer. Morgan has worked internationally in the environmental sector for over 20 years. Having returned home to west Wales in 2022, Morgan is now governor
Rupert Read is co-director of the Climate Majority Project and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of several books, developed the concept of Transformative Adaptation and also invented the term ‘Thrutopia’; an act of imagining the actual mechanics of how we transition from this broken, collapsing
Charles Dowding, experienced no dig gardener, and author of many books, including Permanent Publications' No Dig Organic Home and Garden, has been awarded the Elizabeth Medal of Honour by the RHS. The Elizabeth Medal of Honour was established in 2023, with the gracious assent of His Majesty King Charles III in perpetual remembrance of the
Anne Stobart is a medical herbalist and herb grower based in Devon, UK. Anne remembers an early interest in plants, and she was delighted to be given books about herbs when she was young. She went on to a career in teaching and management posts in adult, further and higher education in Merseyside and
Perrine Hervé-Gruyer pursued a career as a lawyer in Asia before devoting herself to psychotherapy. She is now a farmer. An educator by training, Charles Hervé-Gruyer travelled the globe aboard the training sailboat ‘Fleur de Lampaul’ for 22 years. He is the author of several books. Perrine and Charles became certified permaculture teachers in
Pippa Chapman, author of The Plant Lover's Backyard Forest Garden, won five stars, and the Top Border Prize, for her mini forest garden design at the Harrogate Spring Flower Show, 2023. The flower show is one of the largest in northern England, and for 2023 they releases the 'creative borders' competition. Pippa is a garden
Stephanie Hafferty, no dig gardener and chef, features on BBC's Gardeners' World on Friday 23rd December 2022. Stephanie grows on her homestead in rural Wales and works as an edible garden consultant, creating no dig gardens for restaurants and private estates. In episode 4 of the Winter Specials, Stephanie gives a masterclass in growing food
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