Conference bloggers
We're very pleased to introduce our delegate bloggers, all of whom have agreed to try to make updates from the conference floor.
Anna Rosier started working in the consumer industry in 1994 and joined
Organix, the organic baby and toddler food company, in 2004. Running Organix, a Trustee of the
Organix Foundation and Committee Member for the
Organic Trade Board, she is a passionate advocate of organic food and farming.
Caroline Corsie is Farm Manager, at
Lower Smite Farm, a 65ha mixed arable Flagship Farm for
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, half of which will be organic in August 2011. Her primary focus on re-building functional soil ecosystems (earthworms, humus, green manures etc) as the foundation to halting the decline in biodiversity.
Christopher Trotter is Chair of the
Pioneer Health Foundation the charity that was responsible for the Peckham Experiment at the Pioneer Health Centre. Since the close of the experiment in 1950, the Foundation's work has continued to disseminate the findings of the Experiment, to further the ideas of Scott Williamson on the nature of health, and to promote further research into the social conditions favourable to health.
Ed Dowding is a system analyst and designer, strategist, writer, campaigner, permaculturist, web developer, and occasional TV farmer and sheep wrangler. He likes to use the abundant tools available to connect people, share solutions, and contribute to a future which is resilient and efficient. You can
read more of his blogs here.
Ian Price is Food, Farming & Trade Team Manager at Triodos bank. He is an organic expert and has financed hundreds of organic food and farming businesses since joining Triodos in 2005. Ian has over thirty years banking expertise, and also works with the Prince's Trust, and he is a committee member of the
Organic Trade Board.
Lynda Brown is an award-winning food writer and broadcaster, an expert on food and nutrition and keen advocate for organic living. She has written a number of books, including
The Preserving Book in 2010, published in association with the Soil Association.
Myles Bremner has been Chief Executive of
Garden Organic since 2007. Prior to that he worked for the national chidren's charity NCH, and a number of other national charities before that.
Rob Haward is Operations Director at
Riverford where he spends his time planning crops for its national box scheme. As a student he had visions of one day managing his own organic horticultural holding. After one year of working with organic growers he saw sense and decided to keep well away from growing and leave this to the more resilient.
Sam Trebbick is Commercial Director within the
Produce World group, responsible for RB Organic and Isleham Fresh Produce. Produce World grow and supply a wide range of Organic root crops/potatoes/green veg and alliums. It is also a sponsor of our conference
Tim Young is the editor of the Soil Association's membership magazine Living Earth, before he joined the Soil Association he spent seven years as a consumer researcher and writer at Which? magazine. You can
read more of his blogs here.
Vicki Hird is an Independent Food and Environmental Consultant. Until January this year she was a Senior Campaigner on Food and Farming at
Friends of the Earth, and before that she was Policy Director at
Sustain.
William Lana runs the organic textile company
Green Fibres, which he co-founded Greenfibres in 1996. He is Trustee of a number of environmentally focused charities including: the Environmental Justice Foundation, the Sharpham Trust, and the Transition Network. He is the Chair of the Soil Association’s Organic Textile Standards Committee, and a member of the Soil Association's Standards Board, and helped found the Organic Trade Board in 2008.