Ben Raskin

Head of Agroforestry

Ben can help individual members with horticultural and agroforestry technical, marketing, supply chain, and networking queries.

He also holds specialist knowledge and experience that includes Community Supported Agriculture, woodchip, and starting up new horticultural businesses.

Ben has been working in horticulture for more than 30 years and has been with the Soil Association since 2006.

Ben chairs the Community Supported Agriculture Network UK, and is on the committee of the Farm Woodland Forum.

His own experience includes running a walled garden in Sussex, supplying a Michelin starred restaurant and working for Garden Organic at their gardens in Kent.

Ben also set up and ran the 10-acre horticultural production at Daylesford Organic Farm. He then moved to the Welsh College of Horticulture as commercial manager.

More recently he has been project managing an agroforestry planting at Helen Browning’s farm in Wiltshire since 2016. He has acted as Horticultural Advisor and Board Member for the Community Farm near Bristol.

Ben is also an author of gardening books for children and grownups, including Silvohorticulture and The Woodchip Handbook.