25 March 2025
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This action - packed anniversary issue has been so exciting to attract together , with so many feature to cram in , that I ’ve squeezed my own pages down to one to accommodate everything else .
As there ’s nothing like a big anniversary to make one reminisce and reflect upon experiences and years gone by , I believe I ’d take the opportunity and this varlet to share with you a little bit more about me and my personal take on some of my experiences and important milepost that have avail inform the entrepreneurial editorial approach I take today .
Making a career out of my love for garden
I do n’t do thing by halves , so when I decided to sell my Porto Rico company I became set on doing so to a charity , which happened to be during a niche . A twelvemonth ’s Charles Frederick Worth of due diligence later and the deal was done , thanks to a well timed origination from Nigel Kershaw at Big Issue Invest . I upped sticks with my family 14 years ago , moving from Brighton to the West of Wales . I ’d long want to become more resilient and farm most of my own food and age of enthusiastically hitch through books such as John Seymour’sNew Complete Book of Self - Sufficiencyand observance shows such asRiver Cottagemade me driven to give it a go .
Autism awakening
“ take Arthur , a boy with autism , made me realise the potentiality of gardening to help indue those with ASD and build skills and confidence . ”
From entrepreneurial city slicker
Through my fantastic younger son I ’ve gone on to pen for many national publications , including the prestigious weekly aesculapian journalThe Lancet , about the benefits of gardening for autism and mental wellness . I ’ve run and set up up EU - fund courses with vernal neurodiverse adults and train trainers and undertaking leadership through the National Botanic Gardens of Wales .
Since the pandemic I ’ve found that a wad of these connections and emotional ordinance tools are useful for everyday talk and courses and over the years it has been a pleasance to work with many masses from a range of backgrounds , helping to encourage them to garden and grow some of their own intellectual nourishment .
horticulture for innocent for the Guardian
To thrifty smallholder
I was slap-up to see if it was possible to garden at no - cost , and transmit some of the careful peasant practices of yore such as ‘ make , mend and do ’ and bartering my fashion to a healthy garden . It was a challenge and a one-half , but an incredibly rewarding experience that informed the gardening approach I take today . It lead to many opportunities include editingThe Organic Way magazinefor the conduct horticultural Polemonium caeruleum Garden Organic , writing books and bunk further projects to help people make resilience through natural methods of horticulture .
Coming home base
‘ If there is a will , there is a elbow room ’ has long been one of my main mottos in life story , so when I turn 50 last year and was approached by Kelsey to re - launch this all right magazine in criminal record - breaking time , I jump at the opportunity with zest . I love a challenge and my entrepreneurial skills have occur into play as much as my long - standing editing skill . I ended up consider up clause and contributor idea in my slumber for the first few calendar month as there was n’t otherwise enough meter in the day !
Kim learned to garden with freely available materials
I finger inner to be here and I feel passionately about the copious opportunity forAGin the futurity . In lots of style I feel like all my past times experiences have led me here , and it does very much feel like coming home .
