Ever wanted to know how to grow organically using only plant-based fertilisers? Our monthly show is here to help!
Ellen Mary - horticultural expert will host an entertaining evening with some twenty-four carrot advice from Veg Grower Piers Warren, Addy Fern from Plants for a Future and Veganic farmer Jimmy Videle.
Send your questions to: events@veganorganic.net
Thursday 30th March
7pm-7.45pm UK Time
The panel:
Jimmy Videle is a farmer, activist, consultant and researcher. He has been a consultant, researcher and volunteer with A.U.M. Films (producers of Cowspiracy and What the Health), Humane Party USA and the Animal Protection Party, Canada. He lives with his wife, Mélanie Bernier and five rescue cats on the small-scale veganic farm, La Ferme de l’Aube Accueil (lafermedelaube.com) in Boileau, Québec. He has been growing his own food and homesteading for over twenty-five years and became a professional full-time organic farmer in 2005. From 2010-2014 he worked and consulted on eleven, organic and permaculture farms throughout Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, South America and Québec before settling at his current home in 2014.
He is the author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook: Cultivating Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs from Urban Backyard to Rural Farmyard The Veganic Grower’s Handbook - Lantern (lanternpm.org) ,the host of The Veganic Grower’s Hour you tube show Jimmy Videle-Veganic Grower - KZread ,and the co-founder of the North American Veganic Certification Standard (NAVCS)-Certified Veganic North American Veganic Certification Standard - Serving USA, Canada, and Mexico (certifiedveganic.org) whose mission is to certify farmers throughout North America in 100% plant-based agriculture principles and practices, and create a community that works to end animal agriculture forever.
Ellen Mary: Is a horticultural radio show host, TV presenter, writer and of course vegan. She has travelled all over the world to discuss the benefits that nature provides to our wellbeing - specifically gardening. Her first book ‘The Joy of Gardening; the everyday zen of mowing the lawn‘ was released in May 2021.
For more information visit www.ellenmarygardening.co.uk/
Piers Warren: Conservationist, author and keen grower of organic fruit and vegetables. He is the founder of Wildeye - The International School of Wildlife Film-making. Writer of several books and co-author of The Vegan Cook and Gardener.
More about Piers wildeye.co.uk/piers-warren/The Vegan Cook & Gardener veganorganic.net/product/vega...
Addy Fern: Addy runs Plants for a Future a 28 acre forest garden in Cornwall: With perennial salad plants, fruiting trees and shrubs, oil-rich seed and root crops and there are a wide range of medicinal plants. The land was planted with native woodland in the early 1990’s and provides a haven for wild life. Plants for a Future will run a series of events and courses later in the year. plantsforafuture.theferns.info/
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.