Joanne Butler

NOMINATION DESCRIPTION
OURganic Gardens is an outdoor environmental education centre offering advice and small scale educational packages centered on food, sustainability,and the environment. Joanne and Milo Butler have worked to enhanced, encourage, protect and improve the biodiversity and heritage that the local landscape has to offer. The educational packages provide people with the knowledge they need to make responsible decisions about how they live their lives within the natural environment, while surrounded by the beauty and wonder of the landscape that OURganic Gardens has to offer. The farm using permaculture, no dig and other holistic methods. The not only make space for nature on their small patch, they recognise they are part of it and their work and techings reflect that.
Nominator: Sinead Moran, Director, Foodture