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Would you like to help out on the VON stall at London Vegfest or do a VON stall in your area?
Matthew Appleby, author of Super Organic Garden-Everything You Need to Know About A Vegan Garden, as seen on television.
Plants that can help wellbeing
Saturday 1pm
Ellen Mary
how to get into growing your own food for the vegan diet (so growing in small spaces, on windowsills to gardens and allotments etc)
Revitalizing the power of soil
Saturday 2pm
Shinya Imahashi
Shinya will talk about basic principle of Shumei Natural agriculture, how he grows vegetables organically without adding any animal manures, combined with seed saving and continuous cropping systems.
Grow Beyond Vegan – An Introduction to Plant Based Permaculture!
Graham Burnett
Saturday 3pm
The Vegan way combined with permaculture design can create a world that is not just ‘sustainable’ but truly REGENERATIVE. Join our interactive workshop to find out more!
The Garden of Vegan
Cleve West
Saturday 4pm
Cleve will talk about issues covered in his forthcoming book, “The Garden of Vegan”; what we take from the garden but don’t give back, and his hopes for a more compassionate gardening world.
Vegan Organics Kent, the story of an emerging veganic agroforestry project and farm in East Kent
Jo Kidd
Sunday 12 midday
Their mission is to develop an off-grid veganic and earth-friendly working hub based on permaculture, regenerative agro-forestry and deep ecology principles; incorporating low impact building.
What is a Veganic (Stockfree) Organic Farm?
Iain Tolhurst
Sunday 1pm
This presentation will demonstrate how a Stockfreeorganic farm is able to grow bountiful crops without the use of animal inputs or the importation of fertility. Iain Tolhurst has farmed organically for over 4 decades and is a pioneer of Stockfreeorganic systems. See how working with nature can solve the problems of pest and diseases and how soil is central to the passion of a well-balanced farming system.
Junk Organic
Tamara Schiopu
Sunday 2pm
What is wrong with fresh beetroot? Why is everyone looking for powdered organic beetroot? And with spinach? Why do you need to sell it as a packaged soup and not as a leaf? Potatoes have become Potato Juice. Kale is now Kale Crisps. Apples are freeze-dried and vacuum cooked. Raspberries are only found in raw chocolate and strawberries –in coconut yoghurt. But where is the real stuff?? Letța talk about our food choices for convenience, for beliefs and for the Earth!
20 simple and practical ideas to everyday 'Actionism'
Paul Smorthit
Sunday 3pm
Feel an urge to ‘stand up’ for animals and the environment but don’t have time for activism or outreach right now? “There must be something I can do!”
Discover how to be a daily leader of ‘Actionism’ with 20 easy swaps and tasks using solution based thinking.
