“Our power is in our soils. They sustain our every need. They are the starting place when we return to the land with a seed in hand.”
My Ethos
I am an ecological home grower and community gardener trained in horticulture and regenerative growing practices like permaculture, and forest gardening. I also forage, cook and play with medicinal herbs. I love creating, tending and learning from edible & medicinal spaces that are truly sustainable, beautiful, and useful.
Central to my understanding of a regenerative, ecological garden are growing organically, soil health, the use of local renewable resources, increased biodiversity, water harvest, seed sovereignty and sparking community. Wild and semi-wild spaces are my inspiration.
I write and speak about these passions.
My Story
In 2016 I was working as a fashion model and looking for change. While searching for personal wellbeing and a means to live more gently on the Earth, I began to notice parallels between our extractive relationship with ourselves and our home, Planet Earth.
Growing food became a way to nourish my body, reconnect with the seasons and living world, while rebuilding healthy soils and ecosystems. It was a way to reduce my carbon footprint and explore the possibilities of shifting to a more local, equitable food system and way of life. It was my first step on the path of detangling myself from a culture I could see was harming so many lives on Earth.
To me, human wellbeing is totally connected to that of the Earth’s soils, ecosystems and the whole planet at large because we are nature. I find understanding where our food comes from offers the fastest route into grasping a truly symbiotic relationship with the living world, a necessary shift in our time.
I began my formal horticulture studies with the Royal Horticultural Society and spent time in community gardens while living on a canal boat in London, I am a qualified Permaculture Designer.
I now share what I’ve learned (and am learning!), hoping to inspire reconnection to the living world and to ignite a desire to shift to a more regenerative way of living, for human and planetary wellbeing.
I have written for publications like The Observer, Gardens Illustrated and The Sunday Times, and had a regular column with Riverford Organic's magazine Wicked Leeks and LivingEct magazine. I speak at events and festivals.
In July 2020 I relocated to Devon where I am designing and cultivating an edible and medicinal wild garden in a 30m x 5m space.
I co-ran a community kitchen garden for a couple years, Grow Share Collective, now while I have a babe in arms, I am growing veg, herbs and flowers as part of the group.
