Meet the Community

Laura is a land worker, expert artisan, and bodyworker. Her background training in Shiatsu, Tai Chi, and Chi Gong is the basis of her foundation.

 

Laura's broad spectrum of practice includes conscious movement for healing and health, bee-centric beekeeping, and working with wild food and medicine. 

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Laura is deeply and truly connected to the earth and this shows through everything she does. 

Jen is a nature based facilitator with over 10 years of experience bringing community together. She is a lover of ceremony and ritual and works with the wheel of the year to help people to remember and reconnect with their wild and cyclical selves.

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Her work is deeply embedded in grassroots activism and  social justice and she is passionate and committed to equal access for all to land, food, and medicine.​​

Herbalists Without Borders Bristol is a collaboration between volunteers who are passionate about plant medicine, including clinical herbalists, community herbalists, herb growers; and local support projects that work with asylum seekers and refugees. They are a local, independent, non-affiliated Bristol group.

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Please buy their herbal yearbook here to help them continue their mission. 

Aya Kobayashi is a miso artisan and the founder of Sumikichi Miso Her background in art and creative industries inspired her to adopt a simple artisanal approach, attuned to the seasonal cycle. 

 

Since her move to Somerset in 2012, her broad interest in Zen cooking and Japanese fermentation has shaped her practice into naturally fermented miso making, using the beautiful natural spring water from her local area. 

 

Aya is also a mother, martial artist and an experimental healing cook.

The vision for Wolf Valley Woodland Farm is to be a sustainable agroforestry project that marries Lindsey and Damon’s skills as stewards of the land. Slew Wood, the farm site, is an ancient woodland that has been used as a conifer plantation in recent decades.

 

Their aim is to restore the wood back to its former glory with the removal of conifers, re -establishment of traditional woodland management practices such as coppicing and the introduction of conservation grazing with small ruminants such as sheep and goats. 

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