Some of the questions in tonight’s show will include:
Create a super-hot house
Growing sweet potatoes
Creating an herb garden
Obtaining good compost in adequate quantities
No dig
Nettle fertiliser
Aphid issue
Our star-studded panel to answer the questions:
Anton Rosenfeld: Research Officer at Garden Organic Maureen Robertson:Medical Herbalist Mathew Appleby: Horticultural Journalist Tony Martin: Editor Growing Green International
Veganic Gardeners' Question Time
Tony Martin–will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four-carrot advice from Anton Rosenfeld Research Officer at Garden Organic, Horticultural Journalist Mathew Appleby and Medical Herbalist Maureen Robertson.
Tony Martin: Editor of Growing Green International magazine:
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 and has been editor of Growing Green International since issue 40.
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.
Anton Rosenfeld Research Officer at Garden Organic:
Anton Rosenfeld has been with Garden Organic for 18 years. His work has ranged from projects with commercial field-scale growers to small-scale community gardens and allotments. He has worked as a grower, runs many training courses and regularly writes for Grow Your Own and Kitchen Garden magazine. He has a passion for soils, composting and growing veg from a wide range of cultures and horizons. He is a keen advocate of a vegan diet and veganic gardening and has been vegan for over 30 years.
Maureen RobertsonMedical Herbalist:
MAUREEN has over 25 years of experience working with herbs and sharing the Green knowledge. She co-founded the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine in 1992 offering courses from introductory to professional training at BSc and MSc degree level.
At the same time she encountered Goethe’s way of studying “the Holy Open Book of Nature” as shared by Rudolf Steiner and discovered an approach of wholeness to studying plants, landscape and natural phenomena. She developed a clinical application of Goethe’s method which shaped her herbal practice and the way she supports the healing process for the people she works with.
In 2012 she established the Herbal Apprenticeship at Drimlabarra Herb Farm, Isle of Arran, Scotland which she ran for 4 years before relocating to Portugal.
Her travels in Peru and Ecuador meeting shamans and teacher plants helped create a deepening into the interior world of self healing and the shamanic practices which aid these processes are now an integral part of her approach to purification and rejuvenation.
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.
Watch now!
Veganic Gardeners Question Time Thursday 28th April
The Vegan Organic Network
Our mission is to be a world-wide movement of veganic farmers, growers, producers, consumers and supporters, which will raise awareness, influence policy and educate people about the principles and benefits of veganic agriculture.
Registered charity no. 1080847
Luke Scott III–will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four carrot advice from Jo Kidd of Tree of Life Veganics, Paul Handrick who runs the Bee Sanctuary in Ireland and Permaculture Teacher Graham Burnett.
Luke Scott III: Award-Winning International Speaker, TV Show Host, Spiritual Mentor and most recently Luke the Dad. Author of Upcoming Book, Find Your Truth: Your Guide to Living a Connected Life Filled With Joy and Freedom. Luke is in the process of setting up a number of Vegan Eco-Villages around the world. http://www.lukescottofficial.com/luke-scott-iii/
Paul Handrick:
The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland is the only dedicated native wild bee sanctuary on the planet.
No hives. No honey. Just Wild!
55 acres – the size of 31 football pitches – of mixed habitat which we have been returning to nature since 2012.
Nestled in the foothills of the Wicklow mountains we are a pause in the chaos of modern life.
We advocate for and educate about our endangered wild bee populations and are real life real time proof of the simple measures we can all take to address this serious issue.
When it comes to bees, nature and the planet it’s time to start giving and stop taking.
Here on THE BEE SANCTUARY OF IRELAND we give everything.
Jo Kidd and her family run a small veganic, forest farm near Faversham in Kent.
They started farming in 2018 having been vegan since 2003 and, building on previous projects, are following their passion to live as ethically and compassionately and as close to the earth as possible.
They use a no plough approach and will be completely no till within the next two years.
They use no single use plastic, no concrete and are off grid. They love woodchip!
They are certified organic with the Soil Association.
They sell all produce locally, within a 5 mile radius and all deliveries are by electric vehicle.
jo@treeoflifeveganics.org
@treeoflifeveganics
Graham Burnett
Has been an activist for social and environmental justice since leaving school in the late 1970s, Graham 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 and Permaculture Magazine. He is the author of The Vegan Book of Permaculture and Permaculture A Beginners Guide, and is currently writing ‘The Regenerative Allotment and Garden’.
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.
Our mission is to be a world-wide movement of veganic farmers, growers, producers, consumers and supporters, which will raise awareness, influence policy and educate people about the principles and benefits of veganic agriculture.
Registered charity no. 1080847
