Join us at the Grow Pod on College Green between May 2nd and 4th for a series of talks and workshops on land, growing and wellbeing. All of these talks are free, so drop in at any time. Scroll down for speaker profiles.
| Saturday 2nd May | |
| 11.45am | Incredible Edible |
| Composting Q&A | |
| 12.30pm | Incredible Edible |
| The Incredible Edible Movement | |
| 1.15pm | College of Naturopathic Medicine |
| What is Naturopathic Medicine? | |
| 2pm | Kevin Frediani |
| Feeding Cities: the potential for urban and peri-urban agrictulture | |
| 2.45pm | tbc |
| Fabulous Fermentation | |
| 3.30pm | BeeBristol |
| The decline in pollinators and what you can do to help | |
| 4.15pm | Incredible Edible |
| Gardeners Question Time | |
| Sunday 3rd May | |
| 11.45am | Incredible Edible |
| Composting Q&A | |
| 12.30pm | Incredible Edible |
| Soil Health | |
| 1.15pm | Sam Bloomfield |
| Go Wild for Wellbeing | |
| 2pm | Sims Hill Harvest |
| Community Supported Agriculture: What is it and why do we need it? | |
| 2.45pm | Bristol Health Hub |
| Healthy Relationships for Family Wellbeing | |
| 3.30pm | BeeBristol |
| The decline in pollinators and what you can do to help | |
| 4.15pm | Blue Finger Soil Alliance |
| Soil, Solidarity, Survival. How to avoid starving | |
| Monday 4th May | |
| 11.45am | Incredible Edible |
| Composting Q&A | |
| 12.30pm | Incredible Edible |
| Guerilla Gardening and Tale from Around the World | |
| 1.15pm | Bristol Health Hub |
| Children’s Yoga | |
| 2pm | GIY Dorset |
| Grow It Yourself International and Grow It Yourself Dorset | |
| 2.45pm | Bristol Health Hub |
| Work place wellbeing | |
| 3.30pm | BeeBristol |
| The decline in pollinators and what you can do to help | |
| 4.15pm | Rob Yorke |
| Low-value baked beans - can we have our beans without ‘baking’ our bees?’ |
Speaker Profiles
Sara Venn
Head of Incredible Edible Bristol, Sara has 20 years in horticulture and is a master composter, organic nursery specialist, garden consultant and garden historian. Keep an eye out for her guerrilla gardening exploits across Bristol in unexpected places. She’ll be hosting composting Q&As, talks and a special Bristol version of Gardeners Question Time in the Grow pod.
Rob Yorke
Rob Yorke is a rural surveyor and passionate commentator on rural affairs. He has lived in west Scotland, north England, London and now permanently in south Wales. Catch him at 4.15pm in the Grow pod on Monday 4th May discussing the issues around affordable food production in today’s environment.
Kevin Frediani
Kevin Frediani is Head of Sustainable Land Use at Bicton College he is responsible for all land based education for production and consumption. He is also the project lead for Bicton@Dartington, the UK’s first sustainable land use Institute and the site of a 200 hectare working fossil free farming college based at Dartington Hall Trusts Estate in Devon. Kevin will be discussing urban agriculture on Saturday 2nd May at 2pm in the Grow pod.
Jade Hallie BSc Dip CNM
Jade is a Graduate of the College of Naturopathic Medicine in Nutrition. She is the owner of Corsets and Cake, a specialist service empowering women to improve their health and beauty naturally through food. Jade also teaches and supports schools and members of the local community to make healthy lifestyle changes. Find out more about naturopathic medicine with Jade at 1.15pm on Saturday 2nd May in the Grow pod.
Sam Bloomfield
Having survived growing up in a healing community outside Glastonbury Sam has worked as a healer and body worker since he was 16 years old. Over the past 5 years he has also worked on the ground and managing teams working with some of the most traumatised individuals in care, and as an emotional literacy and physical intervention trainer. He is a full member of the College of Healing, a published performance poet, writing consultant and seasoned workshop leader. He is currently studying for an MA in Dance and Movement Psychotherapy. Perhaps most importantly he is a father of two grown ups, a teenager and a pre-teen.
Dominique Sakoilsky
Dominique Sakoilsky is the founder director of Relaxed Birth and Parenting, has been working with families for over 25 years, and has spent over 10 years working at Relate as a family counsellor and couple therapist before going on to work both privately and in other organisations.
Rosalind Turner
Rosalind from Netwalking South West describes herself as an interdisciplinary practitioner. With her formal training in the arts, a background which includes the design and delivery of events, training and latterly, provoked by an abiding interest in personal and professional development, a post graduate diploma in Humanistic Psychology entitled Leadership, Facilitation and Coaching.