Ever wanted to know how to grow organically using only plant-based fertilisers? Our monthly show is here to help!
Giles Bryant – World Healing Project, Founder will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four carrot advice from Permaculture teacher Graham Burnett, Meghan Kelly from Learn Veganic and Tolhurst Organic Head Gardener Sparrow Middleton.
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Wednesday 25th January
7pm-7.45pm UK Time
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The panel:
Giles Bryant – World Healing Project, Founder.
Giles has been a keen gardener for 30 years. He has planted community orchards, forest gardens and medicinal herb areas at a variety of projects. He runs the World Healing Project, promoting wellbeing for people and the planet, and has just released an 8-year project, One World, which features musicians and singers from around the world. http://www.gilesbryant.com
Sparrow Middleton: Sparrow is Head Grower at Tolhurst Organics, growing field scale fruit and vegetables without the use of animal inputs. He studied existential psychology at Huddersfield University writing a dissertation on ‘The Experience and Meaning of consumption and avoidance of animal derived foods’. Introduced to Biodynamics in 2008 whilst living in an anthroposophical community near Edinburgh. Then travelled for seven years as a musician and WOOFing across Europe and hitchhiking overland to India. He then undertook a 2 year biodynamic horticultural apprenticeship in the Forest of Dean, followed by 3 years at Stockfree Organic farm Growing with Grace in the Yorkshire Dales. Before joining the team at Tolhurst Organics in South Oxfordshire, under Stockfree Organic guru Iain ‘Tolly’ Tolhurst. Sparrow is vegan and is host of the growers gathering, Hardwick Farmhack.
Graham Burnett: An activist for social and environmental justice since leaving school in the late 1970s, Graham Burnett has taught permaculture workshops and courses for over 20 years. He founded Spiralseed in 2001, and is a regular contributor to publications as diverse as Positive News, The Sunday Times, Permaculture Magazine, Permaculture Activist, New Leaves, The Raven, Growing Green, Funky Raw, The Vegan and The Idler. He the author of The Vegan Book of Permaculture and Permaculture A Beginners Guide, and is currently writing ‘The Regenerative Allotment and Garden’ for Permanent Publications. https://spiralseed.co.uk/For courses and information visit The Herbal Path.
Meghan Kelly: Learned veganic permaculture to become more self-sufficient while sticking to her vegan values. She has practiced veganics for over 10 years in community gardens, concrete jungles and up in the hills. She runs the Learn Veganic online course and co-founded the Veganic Agriculture Network .
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A Vegan Organic Network production.