Panel discussion as part of an exclusive reader event with lunch, talk by Raymond Blanc, garden tour, cookery school and more.

Panel with George Lamb and Arizona Muse.

15th November 2023

Le Manoir, Oxfordshire

A day of empowering talks and workshops on the accessible solutions for nature restoration and community revitalisation. 

11th November 2023

The Barbican, London

"Inheriting a world in crisis"

Panel with henry Coleman, Jack Harries, Ele Saltmarsh, Thais Mantovani and Chay Harwood

30th September 2023

Bristol 

Contributing to a Dartington Trust course on "how to design, create and empower others to care for a community garden". The course will include a visit and tour of a community market garden that I co-run and facilitate.

19th- 21st May 2023

Schumacher College, Dartington, South Devon

"Crafting the narrative to transform food and farming systems"

Panel with Joya Berrow and Manda Scott

Friday 6th January 2023

"Teaching ecosystem restoration and agroecology through online learning"  Panel with Charles Dowding and Vandana Shiva

Thursday 5th January 2023

Thursday 24th November 2022

Anson Rooms, Bristol 

“Gardening that grows us too: regenerating our minds, bodies, land and communities through growing food ecologically.” 

Saturday 22nd October 2022

Part of 2022 Beth Chatto Symposium. "There can be no doubt that the way we have historically managed urban and public space land is unsustainable and requires fundamental change. And that change needs to happen now.

Together we will learn that this change is possible, via knowledge sharing with the use of expert case studies and examples."

Saturday 1st-Sunday 2nd September 2022

University of Essex

Part of Wilderness Festival a "four-day festival combining live music, arts, wellbeing and an array of theatre, artisanship, late-night parties, outdoor pursuits and culinary experiences in the Oxfordshire countryside."

Sunday 8th August 2022

 "Growing that gives back: regenerating our minds bodies and communities through growing food.

Poppy Okotcha will explore the benefits of ecological food growing and how connecting with our gardens has proven benefits for our minds, bodies and environments around us."

Saturday 9th July 2022

Hampton Court, Surrey

"Join us on the Barbican’s Conservatory Terrace, as a panel of gardeners, growers and horticulturists discuss gardening to connect with the natural world and finding belonging through planting.

Horticulturist and regenerative grower Poppy Okotcha, Head of Horticulture at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, Errol Rueben Fernandes and Marta Lowcewicz, Head Gardener at the Barbican Conservatory are in conversation with organic food grower and writer Claire Ratinon."

10th July 2022

The Barbican, London