Poppy Okotcha: Growing a Better World

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Poppy Okotcha is an ecological home grower, forager and home cook, trained in horticulture and regenerative growing practices like permaculture, and forest gardening. With a 75,000-strong Instagram following, Poppy is leading a movement of young people interested in how our interactions with nature can directly impact the climate emergency we are living through.

In this talk Poppy will explore the benefits of home scale ecological food growing. From soil health to gut health, food sovereignty, community empowerment and mental health, connecting with our gardens and other green spaces in our towns and cities has proven benefits for mind, body and the environments around us.

"In 2016, searching for personal wellbeing and a way to live more gently on the Earth, I began to notice parallels between our extractive relationship with ourselves and our home, Planet Earth.

Growing food became a way to nourish my body, reconnect with the seasons and living world while doing more than sustaining but actually rebuilding healthy soils and ecosystems. It was a way to reduce my carbon footprint and explore the possibilities of shifting to a more local, equitable food system and way of life. It was my first step on the path of detangling myself from a culture I could see was harming so many lives on Earth.  

To me, human wellbeing is totally connected to that of the Earth’s soils, ecosystems and the whole planet at large because we are nature."

 

This talk is FREE for students to attend - please book a ticket in advance to reserve your space.

Doors open at 17:30 and the event will start promptly at 17:45.

This event is brought to you in partnership from Bristol SU and the University of Bristol Botanic Garden.