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The Organic Growers Gathering 2023 is organised by growers for growers. From small scale fruit, vegetable, herb and flower growers to land workers, crafters and purveyors of folk music.

Whether you’re a weathered master of the soil or a new entrant gaining experience seeding your ideas, there is something here for everyone. Expect lots of practical sessions and break out spaces. We gather to network, skill share, build community, discover, and learn.

Last year we hosted the event Hardwick Farm Hack 2022. The aim was to create an event where growers could share ideas, hacking organic growing solutions together in both weather and political extremes. The event sold out, and flourished into a great success…so we are back!

We are keen to grow alliances between farming networks and platform growers voices for a more resilient community farming future, as part of a ripening food and land justice movement.

It’s important to include young people in growing events, as they will be our future farmers. Sow seeds whilst they are young. Find the ‘Young Growers Plot’ where they will practical, fun and inspirational landy workshops. We encourage thinking about the next generation becoming knowledgable at land-based activities.

As members of the Hardwick Estate, where organic agriculture has been encouraged and nurtured, the farmers, businesses, projects and crafters here are keen to welcome you onto this land we share.

The gathering is hosted at Tolhurst Organic CIC, one of the longest-running organic farms in the UK renowned for pioneering, ethical stock-free organic standards. Set in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside, by the River Thames.

OGG Official Partners:

? The Organic Growers Alliance

? Vegan Organic Network

Ever wanted to know how to grow organically using only plant-based fertilisers? Our monthly show is here to help!

Ellen Mary will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four carrot advice from Horticulture teacher Than and Veg Grower Piers Warren.

Send your questions to: events@veganorganic.net

Thursday 27th July

7pm-7.45pm UK Time

Click here to watch free live on YouTube

The panel:

Ellen Mary: Is a horticultural radio show host, TV presenter, writer and of course vegan. She has travelled all over the world to discuss the benefits that nature provides to our wellbeing – specifically gardening.  Her first book ‘The Joy of Gardening; the everyday zen of mowing the lawn‘ was released in May 2021.

For more information visit https://www.ellenmarygardening.co.uk/

Than Gunabalasingham:

Than is a veganic horticultural tutor, forest gardener, forager and all round plant enthusiast. Having worked for some years in sustainable food policy research, he has turned to the land, creating and teaching about resilient food systems. Most of all he is passionate about indigenous earth wisdom, restoring wild spaces and creating edible landscapes that nourish all beings. He currently tutors with OrganicLea and The Orchard Project, and has recently co-founded Nourish the Wild with the intention of rekindling the spiritual dimension of working with plants, growing food and healing our relationship to the land.    

Piers Warren: Conservationist, author and keen grower of organic fruit and vegetables. He is the founder of Wildeye – The International School of Wildlife Film-making. Writer of several books and co-author of The Vegan Cook and Gardener.
More about Piers https://wildeye.co.uk/piers-warren/The Vegan Cook & Gardener https://veganorganic.net/product/vegan-cook-and-gardener/

Veganic Gardeners’ Question Time hopes to inspire and bring new ideas to foragers, growers and gardeners alike.

Now more than ever it is vital that we engage with how our food is grown.

Tune into our show and become part of the growing revolution which can not only transform your garden plot but also change the way the world grows its food.

A Vegan Organic Network production.

Meg Kelly will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four carrot advice from Super Organic Grower Mathew Appleby, Veg Grower Tony Martin and Keith Robertson who runs the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine.

Thursday 29th June 7pm – 7.45pm UK

Click here to watch free on YouTube!

Please send your questions to: events@veganorganic.net

The Panel:

Show host:

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 . Our website: https://learnveganic.com/ Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LearnVeganic

Mathew Appleby: Author and three time winner of the Garden Media Guild best journalist award, his latest book is The Super Organic Gardener – Everything You Need to Know About a Vegan Garden

Keith Robertson:

Founder of the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine at Drimlabarra Herb Farm on the Isle of Arran. Established in 2000, the farm is run on Veganic/Stockfree lines combining vegan (100% vegetarian) and organic philosophy.

We are in effect, a Vegan sanctuary and retreat centre, dedicated to researching planetary health via herbal treatments, diet, cooking and raw food and practical hands-on green living. Our interest lies in community building and cooperation. People can participate through interactive learning including attendance at workshops, individual consultations, apprenticeships and open day visits.

Scottish School of Herbal Medicine Courses:

visit www.veganherbal.com  for details..

Tony Martin became veggie in 1978 and then vegan in 1986 for the sake of the animals. He has always been interested in gardening since sampling real food grown in his grandparents garden when he was about 8. After growing for 13 years in a 1/20 of an acre garden in Derbyshire he decided he needed a bigger play space and 18 years ago brought 5.5 acres of Welsh hillside and planted over 12,500 trees and hundreds of fruit bushes. He has recently moved to a 1.5 small holding in Carmarthen.
He is interested in permaculture having completed a PDC with Aranya in 2012, organised two vegan PDCs on his land and has had articles published in GGI and Permaculture magazine.

Veganic Gardeners’ Question Time hopes to inspire and bring new ideas to foragers, growers and gardeners alike.

Now more than ever it is vital that we engage with how our food is grown. Tune into our show and become part of the growing revolution which can not only transform your garden plot but also change the way the world grows its food.

A Vegan Organic Network production.

Join our seasoned foragers and nutritionists for your guide to sustainable foraging, find out what’s in season and how to eat it.

Wednesday 17th May 7pm-7.45pm (UK)

Watch Free On YouTube

Please send any questions or pictures for identification (landscape) to : events@veganorganic.net

Wild foraged plant food by definition is veganic (that is, it is free from animal fertilisers, such as fish, blood or bone meal which are used in most organic vegetable production).

If the land where it is growing is not polluted, foraged wild food is beyond organic – it’s veganic!

If you include veganic foods in your diet, whether you’ve grown it yourself or foraged it from the wild –  then you aren’t contributing to the destructive side effects of conventional agriculture.

Nature provides food for all the animals on the planet.

It should be a basic right to be able to eat plants free from toxins.

It is of the utmost importance that corporations, businesses and governments STOP destroying our ecosystems, STOP cutting down our forests, STOP polluting our rivers, oceans, soil and air and START to clean up the mess they have made.

Woods, hedgerows and sea shores are great places to find wild food and connect with the landscape.

Wild foods are by nature full of vitality and nutrition.

Join us on our mission to keep ourselves and our amazing planet healthy and happy!

Foraging Rules

• Only eat what you are 100% sure of. Only eat what you know to be edible. If in doubt leave it out.
• Take small quantities of the plant so its appearance and health are not affected.
• Location. Be aware of sprays from insecticides, weed killers, dogs and picking near verges of heavily used roads. Avoid foraging in these places. Use common sense.
• The Law. There are some legal constraints. Basically we should always get the landowners permission and not dig up the roots of plants in the wild. Many plants are legally protected so check to be sure, easy to do on the internet. . 
• Share your knowledge.

Our panel:

Juliette Bryant is a leading figure in the field of health transformation. She has travelled the world seeking out and studying the most effective tools and plants for achieving good health and healing. Juliette is keen to get people to see what is the their local environment and how they can work with the gifts of mother nature. Juliette has three published books and written countless articles for magazines, newspapers and journals, all arising from her extensive research into healthy living, wellbeing and nutrition. 

She offers her professional services as a Nutritional Health Consultant to individuals and groups within both public and business sectors. Juliette also offers foraging courses as well as sacred sexuality courses. Her dynamic, intuitive and evidenced presentations are well received, enjoyable and noted for the simplicity and accessibility.Her website www.juliettebryant.com features a wealth of original, free content as well as details of her online courses, mentorship work and an extensive range of superfood blends, tonics and supplements – organically produced using plant-based ingredients and sought by customers the world over.

Jon Dale
Jon forages for edible wild foods in the natural habitat where he lives in Cornwall. He runs a veganic project ‘Willow Way’, near Newquay, a place of education, teaching self sufficiency and veganic principles. To help heal the earth and help people to reduce their footprint. Also to help people become engaged with where their food comes from and how it is grown and also to reverse illness through this lifestyle.
 

Jo Barker
Jo Barker is a Forest Gardener and Permaculturalist. She has been designing, making and eating edible gardens since the last century and is passionate about plants and people.

She founded Future Food Forests CIC in 2021 with a vision to make food forests more accessible and useable for more people. She believes that this connects us to a natural way humans have co-existed on Earth since we began. Foraging in Food Forests is a big part of this, and she believes everywhere is a Food Forest. She has the principle that everything is edible if you know how. Jo holds the unofficial record for ingredients in a UK salad at over 300!

Mark Griffin: MediTEAtion : tea ceremony, let go of burdens, patterns, relax taste multiple bowls of tea in stillness and silence, going deeper within. FORAGE WALKS : Consciousness connect to nature, Know how you create with, in through nature into food, tea, medicine,  practical ways. TEA TASTINGS : from personally sourced, wild harvested created teas. Personally sourced, naturally grown teas available to purchase,

Website : www.naturesknowing.fun

Telegram : @Naturesknowing 

Email  : naturesknowing@proton.meWhat app :  Naturesknowing

Lets clean up our planet and create a world of abundance for all!

Vegan Organic Network Production

Join or Donate to Support us on Our Mission

This months specialist topic-LEAF PROTEIN CONCENTRATE – The Past, Present, and Future of this Wonder-food.

Leaves contain protein, we all know this. Yet, for humans to obtain enough protein from leaves we have to consume a heck of a lot of them! Additionally, certain leaves, such as grasses, are very high in cellulose which humans cannot digest. Enter LEAFU! Also known as leaf protein concentrate or leaf curd.  The process of making leafu (and there are a few) extracts and condenses the protein of edible leaves into a dense food with a protein content of around 50%, plus lots of other valuable micronutrients.  The process also generates nutrient-dense residues which make great fertilisers for your veganic garden!

Gardeners’ Question Time brings together a collection of experts on the past, present, and future- promise of leafu including how to make it from ‘weeds’ in your very own kitchen!

April 27^th, 7pm.

Send your questions to: events@veganorganic.net

Click Here to Watch free on YouTube

The panel:

Rebecca Knowles – Rebecca is the director of Stockfree Farming, a Scottish charity that advises and supports farmers and crofters to transition to stockfree food production and land management. Leaf protein concentrate produced from clover and grass is Rebecca’s primary leafu interest as it offers farmers an alternative to grazing ruminants.  She also makes and consumes leafu on a regular basis from locally foraged plants. https://stockfreefarming.org

John Davys – John has been involved with leaf concentrate (LC) in some way for most of his life, starting with vague memories of hanging around his father’s lab at Rothamsted Agricultural Research Station while he was still in short trousers (John, not his Dad!).  Following a mechanical engineering degree, John spent a year in Nicaragua running a project to promote LC as an income source for local women and has remained interested in developing a market for LC in the UK as a means of supporting nutrition projects abroad.  In 2010, John co-authored a chapter on LC for the FAO book “Combating micronutrient deficiencies: food-based approaches”.

Jenny Davys – Jenny first tasted leaf curd fresh from the press as a four year old in the Bill Pirie’s lab at Rothamsted where her dad Glyn Davys was designing and building the machinery to produce it in the 1960s. Along with her brother John, she grew up hearing reports of the wonderful results of supplementing the diet of malnourished children with this natural food source, of research around the world, and she visited Michael Cole who was making leafu in the UK.  She was a member of Find Your Feet when it was led by Carole Martin in the ’70s and ’80s and was involved in fundraising for food trials at that time. She is not a scientist rather a passionate advocate who wishes the world would wake up to the sense and sustainability of getting protein from leaves!

Ella Players-Cole – Ella is an organic smallholder, forager, and small scale leafu producer. She was passed on the leafu baton by her father, who had been making and promoting it for many years. Leafu has been a staple ingredient on the kitchen table all her life ‘you have your salt, your pepper and your leafu’. https://www.facebook.com/Leafcycle/

David Lawson – David is a Lecturer/Researcher at SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College) and carries out research on all aspects of grassland maintenance. A significant aspect of the work is testing the suitability of new breeds of grasses and clover for use in agricultural production.  He has more recently been carrying out research and development on techniques for extracting protein and other products from grass and clover swards.

Grace Duan – Grace is a multidisciplinary designer and innovator currently studying MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. She is passionate about sustainability and veganism, and is currently developing a domestic leaf protein concentrate extraction device for her master’s project.

A Vegan Organic Network Production

Ever wanted to know how to grow organically using only plant-based fertilisers? Our monthly show is here to help!

Ellen Mary – horticultural expert will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four carrot advice from Veg Grower Piers Warren, Addy Fern from Plants for a Future and Veganic farmer Jimmy Videle.

Send your questions to: events@veganorganic.net

Thursday 30th March

7pm-7.45pm UK Time

Click here to watch free live on YouTube

The panel:

Jimmy Videle is a farmer, activist, consultant and researcher. He has been a consultant, researcher and volunteer with A.U.M. Films (producers of Cowspiracy and What the Health), Humane Party USA and the Animal Protection Party, Canada. He lives with his wife, Mélanie Bernier and five rescue cats on the small-scale veganic farm, La Ferme de l’Aube Accueil (lafermedelaube.com)  in Boileau, Québec. He has been growing his own food and homesteading for over twenty-five years and became a professional full-time organic farmer in 2005. From 2010-2014 he worked and consulted on eleven, organic and permaculture farms throughout Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, South America and Québec before settling at his current home in 2014.

He is the author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook: Cultivating Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs from Urban Backyard to Rural Farmyard The Veganic Grower’s Handbook – Lantern (lanternpm.org) ,the host of The Veganic Grower’s Hour you tube show Jimmy Videle-Veganic Grower – YouTube  ,and the co-founder of the North American Veganic Certification Standard (NAVCS)-Certified Veganic North American Veganic Certification Standard – Serving USA, Canada, and Mexico (certifiedveganic.org) whose mission is to certify farmers throughout North America in 100% plant-based agriculture principles and practices, and create a community that works to end animal agriculture forever.

Ellen Mary: Is a horticultural broadcaster, podcast host, TV presenter, author and of course vegan. She has travelled all over the world to discuss the benefits that nature provides to our wellbeing – specifically gardening.  Her first book ‘The Joy of Gardening; the everyday zen of mowing the lawn‘ was released in May 2021 and her second book ‘How to Grow a Garden’ was released in July 2022. Ellen has recently founded a new nature therapy company called People Plants Wellbeing where she hosts nature based retreats, wellbeing days, forest bathing walks, reiki and hypnotherapy sessions. www.peopleplantswellbeing.com 

Piers Warren: Conservationist, author and keen grower of organic fruit and vegetables. He is the founder of Wildeye – The International School of Wildlife Film-making. Writer of several books and co-author of The Vegan Cook and Gardener.
More about Piershttps:https://www.pierswarren.co.uk The Vegan Cook & Gardener https://veganorganic.net/product/vegan-cook-and-gardener/

Addy Fern: Addy runs Plants for a Future a 28 acre forest garden in Cornwall: With perennial salad plants, fruiting trees and shrubs, oil-rich seed and root crops and there are a wide range of medicinal plants. The land was planted with native woodland in the early 1990’s and provides a haven for wild life. Plants for a Future will run a series of events and courses later in the year. https://plantsforafuture.theferns.info/

Veganic Gardeners’ Question Time hopes to inspire and bring new ideas to foragers, growers and gardeners alike.

Now more than ever it is vital that we engage with how our food is grown.

Tune into our show and become part of the growing revolution which can not only transform your garden plot but also change the way the world grows its food.

A Vegan Organic Network production.

Join our seasoned foragers and nutritionists for your guide to sustainable foraging, find out what’s in season and how to eat it.

Wednesday 15th March 7pm-7.45pm (UK)

Watch free on YouTube

Wild foraged plant food by definition is veganic (that is, it is free from animal fertilisers, such as manure fish, blood or bone meal which can be used in organic vegetable production).

If the land where it is growing is not polluted, foraged wild food is beyond organic – it’s veganic!

If you include veganic foods in your diet, whether you’ve grown it yourself or foraged it from the wild –  then you aren’t contributing to the destructive side effects of conventional agriculture.

Nature provides food for all the animals on the planet.

It should be a basic right to be able to eat plants free from toxins.

It is of the utmost importance that corporations, businesses and governments STOP destroying our ecosystems, STOP cutting down our forests, STOP polluting our rivers, oceans, soil and air and START to clean up the mess they have made.

Woods, hedgerows and sea shores are great places to find wild food and connect with the landscape.

Wild foods are by nature full of vitality and nutrition.

Join us on our mission to keep ourselves and our amazing planet healthy and happy!

Foraging Rules

• Only eat what you are 100% sure of. Only eat what you know to be edible. If in doubt leave it out.
• Take small quantities of the plant so its appearance and health are not affected.
• Location. Be aware of sprays from insecticides, weed killers, dogs and picking near verges of heavily used roads. Avoid foraging in these places. Use common sense.
• The Law. There are some legal constraints. Basically we should always get the landowners permission and not dig up the roots of plants in the wild. Many plants are legally protected so check to be sure, easy to do on the internet. . 
• Share your knowledge.

Our panel:

Juliette Bryant is a leading figure in the field of health transformation. She has travelled the world seeking out and studying the most effective tools and plants for achieving good health and healing. Juliette is keen to get people to see what is the their local environment and how they can work with the gifts of mother nature. Juliette has three published books and written countless articles for magazines, newspapers and journals, all arising from her extensive research into healthy living, wellbeing and nutrition. 

She offers her professional services as a Nutritional Health Consultant to individuals and groups within both public and business sectors. Juliette also offers foraging courses as well as sacred sexuality courses. Her dynamic, intuitive and evidenced presentations are well received, enjoyable and noted for the simplicity and accessibility.Her website www.juliettebryant.com features a wealth of original, free content as well as details of her online courses, mentorship work and an extensive range of superfood blends, tonics and supplements – organically produced using plant-based ingredients and sought by customers the world over.

Jon Dale
Jon forages for edible wild foods in the natural habitat where he lives in Cornwall. He runs a veganic project ‘Willow Way’, near Newquay, a place of education, teaching self sufficiency and veganic principles. To help heal the earth and help people to reduce their footprint. Also to help people become engaged with where their food comes from and how it is grown and also to reverse illness through this lifestyle.
 

Jo Barker
Jo Barker is a Forest Gardener and Permaculturalist. She has been designing, making and eating edible gardens since the last century and is passionate about plants and people.

She founded Future Food Forests CIC in 2021 with a vision to make food forests more accessible and useable for more people. She believes that this connects us to a natural way humans have co-existed on Earth since we began. Foraging in Food Forests is a big part of this, and she believes everywhere is a Food Forest. She has the principle that everything is edible if you know how. Jo holds the unofficial record for ingredients in a UK salad at over 300!

Mark Griffin, Foraging walks: In these forage walks you consciously connect to nature, being all your senses, observing all that is, you participate, gathering safely knowing how to create from plants and trees, seeds, berries, roots and some fungi for food, tea, medicine, practical ways: In these foraging walks you consciously connect to nature, being all your senses, observing…

Website : http://www.naturesknowing.fun Telegram : @naturesknowing Email :naturesknowing@proton.me whats app ​: marknaturesknowing 

Lets clean up our planet and create a world of abundance for all!

Vegan Organic Network Production

Join or Donate to Support us on Our Mission

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 Horticulture teacher Than , Swedish Farmer Peter and Veg Grower Piers Warren.

Send your questions to: events@veganorganic.net

Wednesday 22nd February

7pm-7.45pm UK Time

Click here to watch free live on YouTube

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

Than Gunabalasingham:

Than is a veganic horticultural tutor, forest gardener, forager and all round plant enthusiast. Having worked for some years in sustainable food policy research, he has turned to the land, creating and teaching about resilient food systems. Most of all he is passionate about indigenous earth wisdom, restoring wild spaces and creating edible landscapes that nourish all beings. He currently tutors with OrganicLea and The Orchard Project, and has recently co-founded Nourish the Wild with the intention of rekindling the spiritual dimension of working with plants, growing food and healing our relationship to the land.    

Piers Warren: Conservationist, author and keen grower of organic fruit and vegetables. He is the founder of Wildeye – The International School of Wildlife Film-making. Writer of several books and co-author of The Vegan Cook and Gardener.
More about Piers https://wildeye.co.uk/piers-warren/The Vegan Cook & Gardener https://veganorganic.net/product/vegan-cook-and-gardener/

Peter Albrecht:
Peter Albrecht has been a veganic small scale farmer for 12 years. His operation is called Villands Vånga Veganträdgård and mainly focuses on different types of veganic farming and to demonstrate different ways to upscale organic matter into compost, nutrients and soil building material. On the farm Peter and his family grow veggies, perennial vegetables and lots of fruit and berrys. Peters farm is facilitating a lot of education opportunities hosting courses, guided tours, having interns and classes from different schools learning about veganic regenerative farming methods. Currently Peter is also on the Swedish board for the oragnisation of biocyclic veganic farming https://www.biocyclic-vegan.org and hopes to be the first farmer to be biocyclic certified in sweden. If you want to see more of  the farm visit https://www.vegantradgard.se or check out instagram  https://www.instagram.com/vegantradgard/ or facebook https://www.facebook.com/Vegantradgard

Veganic Gardeners’ Question Time hopes to inspire and bring new ideas to foragers, growers and gardeners alike.

Now more than ever it is vital that we engage with how our food is grown.

Tune into our show and become part of the growing revolution which can not only transform your garden plot but also change the way the world grows its food.

A Vegan Organic Network production.

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.

Send your questions to: events@veganorganic.net

Wednesday 25^th January

7pm-7.45pm UK Time

Click here to watch free live on YouTube

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 .

Our website: https://learnveganic.com/
Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LearnVeganic

Veganic Gardeners’ Question Time hopes to inspire and bring new ideas to foragers, growers and gardeners alike.

Now more than ever it is vital that we engage with how our food is grown.

Tune into our show and become part of the growing revolution which can not only transform your garden plot but also change the way the world grows its food.

A Vegan Organic Network production.

Foraging: what to look out for January

Join our seasoned foragers and nutritionists for your guide to sustainable foraging, find out what’s in season and how to eat it.

Wednesday 18th January 7pm-7.45pm (UK)

Watch free on YouTube

Wild foraged plant food by definition is veganic (that is, it is free from animal fertilisers, such as fish, blood or bone meal which are used in most organic vegetable production).

If the land where it is growing is not polluted, foraged wild food is beyond organic – it’s veganic!

If you include veganic foods in your diet, whether you’ve grown it yourself or foraged it from the wild –  then you aren’t contributing to the destructive side effects of conventional agriculture.

Nature provides food for all the animals on the planet.

It should be a basic right to be able to eat plants free from toxins.

It is of the utmost importance that corporations, businesses and governments STOP destroying our ecosystems, STOP cutting down our forests, STOP polluting our rivers, oceans, soil and air and START to clean up the mess they have made.

Woods, hedgerows and sea shores are great places to find wild food and connect with the landscape.

Wild foods are by nature full of vitality and nutrition.

Join us on our mission to keep ourselves and our amazing planet healthy and happy!

Foraging Rules

• Only eat what you are 100% sure of. Only eat what you know to be edible. If in doubt leave it out.
• Take small quantities of the plant so its appearance and health are not affected.
• Location. Be aware of sprays from insecticides, weed killers, dogs and picking near verges of heavily used roads. Avoid foraging in these places. Use common sense.
• The Law. There are some legal constraints. Basically we should always get the landowners permission and not dig up the roots of plants in the wild. Many plants are legally protected so check to be sure, easy to do on the internet. . 
• Share your knowledge.

Our panel:

Juliette Bryant is a leading figure in the field of health transformation. She has travelled the world seeking out and studying the most effective tools and plants for achieving good health and healing. Juliette is keen to get people to see what is the their local environment and how they can work with the gifts of mother nature. Juliette has three published books and written countless articles for magazines, newspapers and journals, all arising from her extensive research into healthy living, wellbeing and nutrition. 

She offers her professional services as a Nutritional Health Consultant to individuals and groups within both public and business sectors. Juliette also offers foraging courses as well as sacred sexuality courses. Her dynamic, intuitive and evidenced presentations are well received, enjoyable and noted for the simplicity and accessibility.Her website www.juliettebryant.com features a wealth of original, free content as well as details of her online courses, mentorship work and an extensive range of superfood blends, tonics and supplements – organically produced using plant-based ingredients and sought by customers the world over.

Jon Dale
Jon forages for edible wild foods in the natural habitat where he lives in Cornwall. He runs a veganic project ‘Willow Way’, near Newquay, a place of education, teaching self sufficiency and veganic principles. To help heal the earth and help people to reduce their footprint. Also to help people become engaged with where their food comes from and how it is grown and also to reverse illness through this lifestyle.
 

Jo Barker
Jo Barker is a Forest Gardener and Permaculturalist. She has been designing, making and eating edible gardens since the last century and is passionate about plants and people.

She founded Future Food Forests CIC in 2021 with a vision to make food forests more accessible and useable for more people. She believes that this connects us to a natural way humans have co-existed on Earth since we began. Foraging in Food Forests is a big part of this, and she believes everywhere is a Food Forest. She has the principle that everything is edible if you know how. Jo holds the unofficial record for ingredients in a UK salad at over 300!

Mark Griffin

I am Mark creator of Tea of Gaia, from my open Heart as pure Love, I offer,

mediTEAtion : tea ceremony.

Forage walks : Know how nature creates food, tea, medicine,  practical ways.

tea tasting : from personally sourced, wild harvested created teas.

Allowing you to connect back to your original pure source self.

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