“We imagine a world where Nature is Muse, Nature is Teacher, Nature is Client, Nature is Rights Holder and Nature is Stakeholder…”
The Garden of Tomorrow is a 2 day event, hosted by The House of Hackney at their HQ, 74-76 Leonard Street London EC2A 4QS.
All of the contributors have unique connections to nature - whether they are growers, communicators, activists, NGOs, or fellow B Corps... they all understand that we are a part of Nature, not apart from it. We all believe in the power of creativity and collaboration to make a change.
This is an incredible initiative by the House of Hackney - a company who we admire so much for acting on nature, when they could so easily just be talking... They are genuine kindred spirits!
Do come along for the event which runs from the 13th-15th of June, I will be giving a short talk/Q&A on the 13th in the morning before rushing back to the farm for our screening of Six Inches of Soil!
Click here to book your tickets for The Garden of Tomorrow.
A bit of a preview on our discussion where we hope to host a lively Q&A!
We will focus on our regenerative journey and why we moved our HQ to a farm, so that we could literally live, work and be in nature.
Our journey to the farm has been both short and long...
The short version? We saw it in the summer of 2020, and after first losing it in sealed bids in August, it was re-available in late November and we bought it on the 4th of December... It was quick because we had been looking and planning for a lloooooonnnnng time.
The long version? Years ago, when we realised that sustainable was not enough (if we all go net zero, we will cruise past 2 degrees) we wondered what Elvis & Kresse would look like if we became a regenerative business.
What does regenerative mean? Well, there is no single definition, but for us it means doing more. In practical terms it means that you give more than you take, you sequester more carbon than you emit, you generate more (renewable) energy than you consume, you treat more water than you use, you foster more biodiversity than you corrupt and you create more than you destroy. You have to solve more problems than you cause too... and all of this 'more' it has to be substantially more. We aren't talking about jumping on a plane and then planting precisely the amount of trees to account for it. We are talking about redesigning your business so that it delivers for nature and remember, nature includes people. We are redesigning our business so that it regenerates...
We thought the best way to do this, to weave this through our work, was to take on a farm. And not just any farm, but the worst farm we could find. Why the worst? Two reasons really, terrible farms cost less but more importantly we felt that it would be a much greater achievement if we could bring a degraded landscape back into biodiverse abundance. The past 3.5 years have been absolutely incredible - so do come along to discover the rest of the story!
