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JOURNAL
Representing creative individuals whose craft, skill and practices are all connected by a commitment to positive change.


SARA GRADY - HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
British Pasture Leather, co-founded by Sara Grady and Alice Robinson, is the first supplier of leather that is traceable
Jul 21, 2023


HOLLY SMITH - BY THE HEDGE
We make honey and grow wool. We craft imperfect objects out of the foraged and the found;
May 19, 2023


NAT MADY - HACKNEY HERBAL
My journey into the world of herbs started and was very much fuelled by joining a community garden close to my home in Hackney.
Apr 30, 2023

ALEXANDER THOMPSON BYER - GROWING IN THE WIND
I live on an island called North Uist in the outer Hebrides with my fiancé Susannah, my son Cedar and cat Coco.
Mar 27, 2023


HAZEL BRYER - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Hazel Bryer is an illustrator and printmaker. She works mostly with linocuts, relishing the handmade process of cutting and inking up a...
Feb 1, 2023


EMILY ANN HARRIS - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Emily Harris’s work is deep rooted in her childhood growing up on a family farm. Nature has always been the central subject of her work,...
Feb 1, 2023


LAURA DIGGENS - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Laura ’s artistic practice is centred primarily on architecture, her background in landscape design and working with the seasons meant...
Feb 1, 2023


ED DINGLI - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Introducing Ed Dingli as the first of our WBR23 campaign artists - Ed is an illustrator and designer whose work is driven by...
Feb 1, 2023


SOIL & SEED - A PHOTO SERIES FROM MARIA BELL
The infamous quote from Albert Howard reflects a simple truth: “The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.” Too...
Dec 16, 2022


GEORGE WEBBER - GREENSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL
I knew I was on the right track when a boy helping out in the garden with some broad beans said “Oh I get it now Miss, that one seed we put
Jul 20, 2022

ALEX CHERRY - GROUNDSWELL AGRICULTURAL FESTIVAL
My father Paul and uncle John Cherry had been farming the land at Weston in North Hertfordshire for over three decades...
Jun 14, 2022


LIV JAMES - DOWN FARM GROWERS COOPERATIVE
Liv first met Liv at university in the student journalism room of the SU. Despite taking different routes to get there, they've found...
Apr 29, 2022


KIRSTY LEE - MORE OUTDOOR FRIENDS
Our world is becoming an increasingly mobile place; the distribution of life can feel abundant as we move across town, city and country.
Apr 15, 2022


KATHE KACZMARZYK - FOUNDER OF SPECERIBUTIK
When I dreamed about what I would do when I got older, I never once imagined it would be owning and running a shop.
Mar 18, 2022


IAN JAMES - WATER LANE
Water Lane is one of the projects that may never have come about if it hadn’t been for the first lockdown.
Mar 5, 2022


WILL ROLPH - WHAT CAN TWO FIELDS REALLY CHANGE?
In 2013, a visit to Greece would change our lives. We just didn’t know it at the time.
Feb 18, 2022


CECILIA BYRNE - ENDLESS RHYTHM
Any cooking process which requires three ingredients or less has always attracted me. I have always liked the idea of doing more with less
Dec 20, 2021


HOLLY LETCH - MAD ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY
In September I travelled to Copenhagen to attend the MAD Academy
Nov 26, 2021


LIZ SEABROOK - PHOTOGRAPHER
At the end of April this year, I was commissioned to work on a book about female chefs – 30 to be precise.
Oct 29, 2021


LUCY VINCENT - FOOD BEHIND BARS
The other week I put a set of photos on Instagram of a vast, dilapidated old greenhouse set within some wild and unruly grounds.
Sep 17, 2021
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