Abby Rose
Abby Rose is a soil health advocate and part-time farmer. Abby is co-founder of Vidacycle who make Sectormentor: a platform that supports vineyards with practical tools to manage the vines and build soil health, including the Regen Platform developed in partnership with Nicole Masters. Ten years ago, together with Jo Barratt, Abby co-founded the award-winning British podcast, Farmerama Radio. The monthly show has quickly become a leading voice in the global regenerative movement highlighting the positive role farmers play in determining the future of the earth and its people. Based in London, Abby also spends time working on her family farm, Vidacycle, in Chile, and visiting farms on multiple continents learning from soils and understanding what it’s going to take to build a more ecological farming future. Abby was named in Code Hospitality’s Top 100 Influential Women in Hospitality 2020, one of the ‘50 Next’ young people shaping the future of gastronomy by The World’s 50 Best, and has been featured widely in the press on the importance of regenerative agriculture when it comes to our food, our health and the environment.
Dora Taylor
Dora is a chef, writer, activist and researcher. She recently completed an MA in Anthropology of Food at SOAS University, where her research focussed on Black British growers within the alternative farming movement. She is interested in the overlap between environmental and racial justice, and sees food and farming as the most important space in which to build environmental and social resilience. Being London-based, she is passionate about increasing opportunities for food-growing and access to green spaces in cities.
Lucy Dearlove
Lucy Dearlove is a writer and audio producer originally from North East England, now based in East Sussex. Alongside Farmerama, she hosts and produces Lecker, one of the UK’s most critically acclaimed food podcasts and two-time winner of the Fortnum & Mason Podcast of the Year Award.
Katie Revell
Katie is a Glasgow-based audio producer with a longstanding interest in agriculture. She sees food – and therefore farming – as the crux of the way humans relate to “nature”, and to each other. Although not (yet!) a farmer or grower herself, she’s fascinated by the practical, social and political work that farmers and other food producers do. Katie joined the Farmerama team in 2016. She was lead producer of our award-winning Cereal series, and co-produced our series Landed.
Lucy Fisher
Lucy is a researcher exploring farming and rural livelihoods. She is particularly interested in how new entrant farmers make it work and the potential impact grassroots storytelling can make in the farming world.
Rachel Payne
Rachel works across food systems research, design and audio, creating work across physical and digital spaces. Originally trained in theatre design, she went on to a career in the film industry before completing an MA in Narrative Environments. During this time she was awarded the Maison/0 Green Trail award and the CSM Spatial Practices Climate Care Award. She is particularly interested in exploring how the food we eat shapes our landscapes and influences how we care for the wider environment.
Jo Barratt
Jo is the co-founder of Farmerama and our former co-producer and co-host. Jo is a radio producer who has a variety of other professional interests including working with Open Data and multi-sensory design. In all his work he is interested in finding ways of helping people pay more attention, understand and connect to the world around them.
Nigel Akehurst
Nigel is a third-generation farmer, photojournalist and editor. He is passionate about showcasing stories of sustainable farming and food culture to a mainstream audience. In 2013 he founded Indie Farmer, an online magazine devoted to celebrating the new breed of “indie farmers” – small-scale producers, growers, livestock keepers and rural entrepreneurs – who are redefining tradition and exploring new ways to farm and produce real food. He also works with his parents on their small family farm in East Sussex, where they produce grass-fed beef from a suckler herd of Sussex cattle and lamb from a breeding flock of Mules and Suffolk cross ewes.