Permaculture Workshops
Facilitator and workshop leader in Permaculture Design courses with Common Edge, Stroud and Shift Bristol 2016 – 2022
>Cultivating Fungi
Workshops about the philosophy and practice of sustainable mushroom cultivation. Part of Shift Bristol’s Practical Sustainability and Urban Permaculture course. 2016 ongoing
>Fungusloci
Gloucestershire’s first urban mushroom micro farm operated March 2015 to June 2018. Fungusloci mushroom farm diverted tons of commercial waste from landfill, using the coffee grounds from local cafes as the growing medium for producing highly prized nutritious oyster mushrooms. … >
Green Day Workshops
Working with Creative Sustainability CIC to deliver workshops as part of Greening Days in secondary and primary schools 2013 -16.
>Creative Camping
Initiated and lead annual series of camps for disabled & non-disabled young people Gloucestershire, Becon Beacons, Devon 2011 – 2019
>Pressing Matters Collective
Initiated and organised community fruit press in order to utilise underused and excess fruit crops. 2014 -2022
>Brewery Mushroom Trials
In October 2013 I started a series of mushroom cultivation trials with Stroud Brewery. The trials were carried out in order to determine the viability of using waste products from the brewing process as growing substrates for oyster mushrooms. Spent … >
Camp Zero +1
It’s easy to imagine the end of the world… but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism. Churchtown Farm, Fowey, Cornwall. June 2013
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Youth Exploring Sustainability
Facilitator, workshop leader and web design for district wide project with secondary schools, Stroud 2012/13. Part of the Future Now project. See more on CScic website
>Woodcraft Folk
Leader of local young peoples organisation for social change. Lead and set up groups in Stroud from 2004 to 2012
>Camp Zero
The Shadow which the Future Throws. A camp of participatory and collaborative events, discussions, workshops and artworks, 2010
>Fruit tree planting project
Following a very successful Apple Day and in an effort to increase the productivity of locally grown produce, Chalford Food Chain oganised a fruit and nut tree-planting project. To encourage people to plant there own we put in a group … >
Skovva a’n Natur Keltec*
* Shelter for Celtic Nature Project developed for Field of Vision during a three week residency at the Tremenheere – 11 acres of fields and wooded valley in the early stages of development as a subtropical garden and sculpture park … >
dowr yntr tus
1998 -2001, Galleri 21 Malmo Sweden. Also shown as dobhar eidir tuath at Triskel Art Centre, Cork, Eire December 2001 Plastic (bottle tops) collected from the coasts of Cornwall, Southwest Ireland, Brittany, Wales and Scotland. Wall texts in Cornish, Irish, … >
Preserving Place
A Year Of The Artist residency at Stroud Valleys Artspace in collaboration with the people of Stroud. Kitchen, fruit, sugar, jars, photos, texts, video & web site We carry the genes of the hunter-gatherer within us still. But today our … >
