GEORGE WEBBER - GREENSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL
I knew I was on the right track when a boy helping out in the garden with some broad beans said “Oh I get it now Miss, that one seed we put
JOURNAL
Representing creative individuals whose craft, skill and practices are all connected by a commitment to positive change.
- Jun 14
ALEX CHERRY - GROUNDSWELL AGRICULTURAL FESTIVAL
My father Paul and uncle John Cherry had been farming the land at Weston in North Hertfordshire for over three decades...
- Jun 5
GEORGIE BEACH - RIPE CIDER
My husband, Cameron, and I are natural cider makers based in St Veep, Cornwall.
- Apr 29
LIV JAMES - DOWN FARM GROWERS COOPERATIVE
Liv first met Liv at university in the student journalism room of the SU. Despite taking different routes to get there, they've found...
- Mar 18
KATHE KACZMARZYK - FOUNDER OF SPECERIBUTIK
When I dreamed about what I would do when I got older, I never once imagined it would be owning and running a shop.
- Mar 5
IAN JAMES - WATER LANE
Water Lane is one of the projects that may never have come about if it hadn’t been for the first lockdown.
- Feb 18
WILL ROLPH - WHAT CAN TWO FIELDS REALLY CHANGE?
In 2013, a visit to Greece would change our lives. We just didn’t know it at the time.
- Dec 20, 2021
CECILIA BYRNE - ENDLESS RHYTHM
Any cooking process which requires three ingredients or less has always attracted me. I have always liked the idea of doing more with less
- Nov 26, 2021
HOLLY LETCH - MAD ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY
In September I travelled to Copenhagen to attend the MAD Academy
- Oct 23, 2021
PEAT
As Autumn draws in, leaves fall and we start to put our fields to bed, we think about the myriad of organic mulches and bagged composts
- Sep 17, 2021
LUCY VINCENT - FOOD BEHIND BARS
The other week I put a set of photos on Instagram of a vast, dilapidated old greenhouse set within some wild and unruly grounds.
- Aug 19, 2021
STEVE BARRON - MARGENT FARM
In 2015 my daughter had a daughter and it made me question what kind of world she was coming into. I was busy making films, creating an invi
- Jul 13, 2021
HARRY DYER - COFOUNDER OF SHRUB PROVISIONS
Sam and I set up Shrub for a plethora of reasons really, but mainly all spawning from our love of good food.
- Jun 20, 2021
CHARLIE WOOD - COFOUNDER OF CROSSOVER BLENDERY
It was in 2008 that George and I had our first taste of a Belgium Gueuze, a blend of 1, 2 and 3 year old Lambic beer, from Brasserie-Brouwer
- Jun 13, 2021
ON THE YOUNG PROPAGATORS SOCIETY - GEORGIA WARD DYER
The Young Propagators Society was created with three intentions in mind: to aid the dissemination of propagation knowledge through the gener
- Apr 23, 2021
PETER HONEGGER - ON CROSS POLLINATION
I remember the first time our business partner Jimmy Toffola from Kiffe my wines brought up the idea of ‘cross pollination’ in the context o
- Mar 31, 2021
SYSTEMIC PESTICIDES -THEY ARE KILLING ALL OF US
You might have recently seen campaigns about the temporary allowance of a type of bee-killing pesticide called neonicotinoid thiamethoxam, F
- Mar 19, 2021
ETHAN FRISKNEY-BRYER - HEAD CHEF, FITZROY AND NORTH STREET KITCHEN, AND GROWER
I’ve been living down in Cornwall for the past two years, having lived in London for the previous nine. Straight out of university I got...
- Feb 19, 2021
CHRISSY HARRISON - FOUNDER OF KEATS ORGANICS
It’s true that it's hard to be what you can’t see. So, it wasn’t until I reached my mid-twenties that I first imagined myself in a farming
- Jan 14, 2021
2020 REFLECTIONS
We’re taking January to refuel our tanks and slowly chip away at the planning stages of future projects that are keeping us motivated