Long-distance swimming
Open water, long distances. It has taught me more about patience than any project methodology, and made the health of a waterway something I notice with my whole body.
Interests
What I do when nobody is paying me
Sustainability at home is less about policy than about repetition — the same choices, most days, for years.
Travelling by bicycle
Holidays measured in days rather than kilometres. Cycling puts you at the speed of the landscape, which is also the speed at which you meet the people farming it.
Growing fruit and vegetables
A productive home plot, organic where it can be. Soil health, composting, water and pests stop being concepts once you have lost a crop to each of them.
Tree planting and clean-ups
Volunteer days, mostly unglamorous. Planting is the rare kind of work where the result outlives the argument about whether it was worth doing.
Cooking what the garden gives
Seasonal by constraint rather than principle. Cooking from the plot is the fastest way to understand how much effort a food system actually costs.
Hiking and wildlife watching
Long walks, a camera, and a habit of stopping. It keeps the abstractions honest: biodiversity is a set of specific animals in specific hedgerows.
Also
Reading, mostly
Climate science, regenerative agriculture, environmental ethics and conservation strategy — plus the conference and workshop circuit, which is where the field admits what is not working yet.