Kerri Waters – Viva! Farmers Coordinator will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four carrot advice from permaculture teacher Aranya, forest gardener Jonathan Barker and Anton Rosenfeld from Garden Organic.
Please send your questions to: events@veganorganic.net
Tuesday 29th November
7pm-7.45pm UK Time
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Kerri Waters – Viva! Farmers Coordinator
Kerri Waters is a PhD researcher and project coordinator for Viva! Farming – an organisation helping animal farmers transition to alternative forms of farming. Her interest in farming and food grew when she worked for Defra during her studies at the Rural Payment Agency processing subsidies for farmers. It was here that she first understood the financial and political problems the farming community faces in today’s modern food system. Driven by a passion for food, she has worked as a chef in kitchens across the UK and France and studied French cuisine in Paris. She became vegan in 2016 after realising the environmental impacts of animal agriculture and meeting the love of her life – a cairn terrier called Rufus. Since then, she has campaigned for a better world for animals and a fairer food system. She is currently conducting doctoral research looking at a just transition for animal farmers beyond animal-based agriculture.
Viva! Farming: https://vivafarming.org.uk/
Anton Rosenfeld Research Officer at Garden Organic:
Anton Rosenfeld has been with Garden Organic for 18 years. His work has ranged from projects with commercial field-scale growers to small-scale community gardens and allotments. He has worked as a grower, runs many training courses and regularly writes for Grow Your Own and Kitchen Garden magazine. He has a passion for soils, composting and growing veg from a wide range of cultures and horizons. He is a keen advocate of a vegan diet and veganic gardening and has been vegan for over 30 years.
Aranya: is one of Britain’s leading permaculture teachers, having taught nearly 100 two-week permaculture design courses (PDCs) since 2005. He’s author of the popular ‘Permaculture Design – a Step-by-Step Guide’, translated into 5 languages, and launched an online course last summer based on the design process described in the book. He’s currently finishing a second book, about the application of systems thinking and patterns in permaculture design, due to be published in 2022. He’s been gardening for 35 years, loves growing food and is especially interesting in low-input systems like forest gardening and no-dig.
Aranya’s website: https://www.learnpermaculture.com
Jonathan Barker: Jonathan Barker has been vegan for 22 years and has managed a forest garden in Essex for 11 years. We have planted around 4500 trees on our 6 acre smallholding which is managed for nature as well as producing abundant yields of fruits, vegetable and nuts. As well as being a manager for Environmental charity the Wilderness Foundation, Jonathan encourages community engagement with sustainable food production and would like to see the forest garden model spread throughout the UK.
Veganic Gardeners’ Question Time hopes to inspire and bring new ideas to foragers, growers and gardeners alike.
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A Vegan Organic Network production.