Cultivate wellbeing while transforming the food system
Learn from the experience of an urban farm that helps people and nature to thrive right now, while creating a food system fit for the polycrisis.
I was expecting a great community growing project. It was a bonus to discover such an inspiring, and credible, ambition to transform the food system.
My conversation with Lisa Houston, co-founder of Lauriston Agroecology Farm on the edge of Edinburgh, was a revelation.
Join me as I walk and talk with Lisa to discover:
How a 100 acre urban farm is enabling people and nature to thrive right now, while also working to create a resilient urban food system fit for the polycrisis.
How “community engagement” isn’t a challenge if you create the opportunities people are hungry for.
Why Lauriston Farm is a workers co-operative and is strategically building organisational resilience and avoiding the risks of a personality driven organisation.
In the second segment of the show, co-host Morag Watson, guest listener Anthony Morrow and I discuss insights and lessons changemakers might take from Lisa’s story. These include:
The simplicity and the power of creating opportunities for people to connect with each and nature.
How thoughtful rules and structures make it easier for community to flourish.
The benefits of being really clear where you have agency, and what opportunities you have to change things.
Thrivable Scotland is the podcast for, by, and about, changemakers working for people and nature.
We investigate building resilience, regenerating natural systems and cultivating collective wellbeing, so people and the rest of nature can thrive, right now and whatever the polycrisis brings next.
We explore what’s working, why it’s working and how it could help you in your work.
Connect:
Guest: Lisa Houston, Lauriston Agroecology Farm
Guest Listener: Anthony Morrow
Co-host: Morag Watson
Host, me Osbert Lancaster
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