Authors
Rebecca Burgess
Rebecca Burgess, M.ed, is the executive director of Fibershed, chair of the board for Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of Harvesting Color. She is a vocationally trained weaver and natural dyer. She has over a decade of experience writing and implementing hands-on curricula that focus on the intersection of restoration ecology and fiber systems. Burgess has built an extensive network of farmers and artisans in the Northern California Fibershed to pilot an innovative fiber systems model at the community scale. Her project has become…
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement. Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers’, peasants’, and women’s rights, she is the author and editor of a score of influential books, among them Oneness vs. the 1%
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Cassandra Elizabeth Sears
Cassandra Elizabeth Sears is an apothecary bartender, gardener, and herbalist. She has been studying herbal medicine for sixteen years, growing lush gardens while working as an organic gardener, and playing in the wild while mixing drinks inspired by nature. She enjoys the dynamic intersection of the hospitality industry, wilderness, and organic agriculture in her native state of Maine. You can find her behind the bar part-time at The White Barn Inn in Kennebunkport. The rest of the time, you can find her elevating private events and…
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Becky Searle
Becky Searle is an ecologist turned kitchen gardener. A self-taught designer, she has planned her own gardens from scratch. Her first garden as an adult was a tiny terrace outside a ground-floor flat. Since then, she has gardened in a 1960s house, a 1930s house and two new-build houses. Becky has a monthly feature in Kitchen Garden magazine, for which she was shortlisted for ‘Environmental Journalist of the Year’ by the Garden Media Guild in both 2022 and 2023. Becky also writes for Gardener’s…
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Sam Watts
Sam Watts has a PhD in cancer research from the University of Southampton’s School of Medicine, where he worked for ten years. He has led large-scale NHS-funded cancer clinical trials in several leading hospitals, including Southampton General Hospital, Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Also a trained clinician of Ayurvedic and natural medicine, Sam founded Mind-Body Medical in 2018 to bring evidence-based and practical Ayurveda to those living in the UK and Europe. Mind-Body Medical has grown to…
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Sam Knapp
Sam Knapp grew up in the woods near the shores of Lake Superior with little exposure to farm life. After earning degrees in physics and chemistry and starting down the career path of engineering, Sam caught the farming bug while working on a research farm in Sweden. He worked on vegetable farms in Sweden, Alaska, Michigan, and Wisconsin before starting his own Root Cellar Farm in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to earn extra income while completing a master’s degree in plant ecology. In 2020,…
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Beth Dooley
Beth Dooley has written several award-winning cookbooks. Her book The Perennial Kitchen offered “simple recipes for a healthy future” in the face of climate change, and her book The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, coauthored with Sean Sherman, was recognized as the Best American Cookbook in 2018 by the James Beard Foundation. She is regarded as a beloved weekly columnist of food and travel for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, and she regularly appears on Minnesota Public Radio.
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Pete Dunne
Pete Dunne is an author and founder of the World Series of Birding, former Director of Natural History Information for the New Jersey Audubon Society, and former director of the Cape May Bird Observatory. An experienced tour leader, he is well-known for his columns and contributions to publications such as American Birds and Birding. He is also the author of more than twenty books, including Birds of Prey, Gulls Simplified, The Art of Pishing, The Wind Masters, and, most recently, The Shorebirds of North America.
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Franco Fubini
Franco Fubini is at the forefront of a fundamental revolution in the way we all eat. Founder and CEO of Natoora, his unique approach to seasonality and sourcing has been raising the bar on flavour for 20 years and is actively shaping the way both top chefs and consumers cook and understand food in London, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Malmo, New York, LA, Miami and Melbourne. Driven by his belief that by engaging people with the real flavour of fruit and vegetables, we can collectively…
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Andy Dibben
Andy Dibben is currently Head Grower at Abbey Home Farm, where he is responsible for the production of over ninety different fruit and vegetable crops. Over the last eight years, Andy has been responsible for designing and establishing an agroforestry system integrating fruit, coppice and wildlife trees with field-scale vegetable production. Andy regularly writes horticultural articles and speaks at conferences, including the Oxford Real Farming Conference.
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