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I am an independent plant and soil health educator and a healthy soils advocate. I provide lectures, workshops and consultation on soil management, plant nutrition and integrated approaches of sustainable food production. I studied a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in Australia specialising in plant and soil dynamics and I have a particular interest in managing soil microbial ecology along with crop & soil nutrition to optimise plant immunity, soil function and soil carbon sequestration. More recently I’ve been working in the UK and Europe with both conventional and organic farming systems integrating soil chemical & biological assessments, along with plant nutritional analyses as a joined-up strategy for managing crop production. I have a passion for teaching and sharing both scientific and practical knowledge on agroecological growing practices and I have been fortunate enough to educate farming audiences in Australia, UK, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Latvia, Bulgaria, South Africa, Kenya, Canada and the US.
I have also been a keen vegetable grower for many years and am pleased to see more and more citizens around the world engage with the food system through urban gardening. I also work to strengthen this connection through food education. I have worked with some engaging urban farming projects in the UK such as Growhampton at The University of Roehampton, Paradise Co-Op and Urban Wild in South London – projects which engage university students and school children with outdoor and food growing skills, cooking and food preparation as well as wider environmental and sustainability education. I am currently on sabbatical in Canada finishing an MSc in Food Policy and [slowly] authoring a book on the links between plant and soil microbiomes, nutrition and plant immunity – do sign up to my mailing list and follow the blog for updates particularly on this. |
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