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| 1. History of the Good Gardeners Association | |||
| 2. Our Aims | |||
| 3. Meet our Director/Co-ordinator | |||
| 3. Meet our Director/Co-ordinator | |||
Matt Adams is the Director / Co-ordinator of the Good Gardeners Association Matt Adams is Moving Beyond Organic |
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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. |
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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: |
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 Gardens for Research Experiential Education and Nutrition |
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“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 Jan 2008 |
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