Veganic Gardeners Question Time 25th April 2024

Ever wanted to know how to grow organically using only plant-based fertilisers? Our monthly show is here to help!

Giles Bryant will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four carrot advice from permaculture teacher Graham Burnett and forest gardener Jonathan Barker and forager Jo Barker.

Send your questions to: [email protected]

Thursday 25th April 2024

7pm-7.45pm UK Time

The panel:

Show host, Giles Bryant – World Healing Project, Founder:Giles has been a keen gardener for 30 years. He has planted community orchards, forest gardens and medicinal herb areas at a variety of projects. He runs the World Healing Project, promoting wellbeing for people and the planet, and has just released an 8-year project, One World, which features musicians and singers from around the world. http://www.gilesbryant.com

Graham Burnett: An activist for social and environmental justice since leaving school in the late 1970s, Graham Burnett 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, Permaculture Magazine, Permaculture Activist, New Leaves, The Raven, Growing Green, Funky Raw, The Vegan and The Idler. He the author of The Vegan Book of Permaculture and Permaculture A Beginners Guide, and is currently writing ‘The Regenerative Allotment and Garden’ for Permanent Publications. https://spiralseed.co.uk/

Jonathan Barker: Jonathan Barker has been vegan for 22 years and has managed a forest garden in Essex for 11 years. We have planted around 4500 trees on our 6 acre smallholding which is managed for nature as well as producing abundant yields of fruits, vegetable and nuts. As well as being a manager for Environmental charity the Wilderness Foundation, Jonathan encourages community engagement with sustainable food production and would like to see the forest garden model spread throughout the UK.

Jo Barker
Jo Barker is a Forest Gardener and Permaculturalist. She has been designing, making and eating edible gardens since the last century and is passionate about plants and people.

She founded Future Food Forests CIC in 2021 with a vision to make food forests more accessible and useable for more people. She believes that this connects us to a natural way humans have co-existed on Earth since we began. Foraging in Food Forests is a big part of this, and she believes everywhere is a Food Forest. She has the principle that everything is edible if you know how. Jo holds the unofficial record for ingredients in a UK salad at over 300!

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.

A Vegan Organic Network production.