Meet our Chief Executive/Coordinator

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About History Aims >Chief Exec	Meet our Chief Executive/Coordinator Matt Adams is the Chief Executive/Coordinator of the Good Gardeners Association (a membership based charity) whose aim is to grow food for nutrition. Matt comes from a practical family. He is a mechanical engineer by trade but in 1992 after twenty years decided to study for a degree in Environmental Quality and Resource Management. His final year work focused on environmental politics and philosophy in relation to sustainable development. He now describes himself as a Deep Ecologist – a deep green philosophy which views the natural world as something to respect and enhance rather than to dominate and control. His work with the Good Gardeners is an example of Deep Ecology in action and he believes that what he is doing by Moving Beyond Organic is offering a ‘deep green’ contribution to sustainable development. Working on a shoestring for the last seven years he’s developed an education project for schools and a research project in partnership with others , both growing food for nutrition:
		Gardens for Research Experiential Education and Nutrition
	“Linking the well-being of the life in the soil to an increase in the nutritional qualities of plants to the potential benefits to human health and to the well-being of the planet is the task that lies ahead. It involves re-thinking some fundamentals such as, what is nutrition? and what really makes a ‘nutritious’ plant grow?” Matt Adams