Exploring how plants are used in common medicines and cosmetics, social and therapeutic horticulture and how both plants and nature overall help our physical and mental health wellbeing. After some interesting facts about nature and how we are connected together, I will provide my top plants that you can grow at home to help with common health issues. Some may surprise you! It’s a fun, relaxed talk but with a serious message. Tree hugging is involved!

Shinya will talk about basic principle of Shumei Natural agriculture, how he grows vegetables organically without adding any animal manures, combined with seed saving and continuous cropping systems. Revitalizing the power of soil is essential for Natural Agriculture farming. It’s 100% vegan organic.

Reducing animal products is a positive step towards a more ecological lifestyle. Yet even a vegan diet can have a high carbon footprint if still reliant on industrial agriculture. The Vegan way combined with permaculture design can create a world that is not just ‘sustainable’ but truly REGENERATIVE. Join our interactive workshop to find out more!

Cleve will talk about issues covered in his forthcoming book, “The Garden of Vegan”; what we take from the garden but don’t give back, and his hopes for a more compassionate gardening world. He will also discuss how his initial venture into veganic gardening has faired on his couch-grass-ridden allotment.

Jo will be speaking about “Vegan Organics Kent, the story of an emerging veganic agroforestry project and farm in East Kent.”

This presentation will demonstrate how a Stockfreeorganic farm is able to grow bountiful crops without the use of animal inputs or the importation of fertility. Iain Tolhurst has farmed organically for over 4 decades and is a pioneer of Stockfreeorganic systems. See how working with nature can solve the problems of pest and diseases and how soil is central to the passion of a well-balanced farming system.

What is wrong with fresh beetroot? Why is everyone looking for powdered organic beetroot? And with spinach? Why do you need to sell it as a packaged soup and not as a leaf? Potatoes have  become Potato Juice. Kale is now Kale Crisps. Apples are freeze-dried and vacuum cooked. Raspberries are only found in raw chocolate and strawberries –in coconut yoghurt. But where is the real stuff?? Letța talk about our food choices for convenience, for beliefs and for the Earth!
based on my article on Tolhurst Organic blog.

Feel an urge to ‘stand up’ for animals and the environment but don’t have time for activism or outreach right now? “There must be something I can do!” 

Discover how to be a daily leader of ‘Actionism’ with 20 easy swaps and tasks using solution based thinking.