Meet the team
Meet the Master Gardener team at the UK’s leading organic growing charity, Garden Organic. Team profiles below.
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| Philip Turvil | Kate Newman | Gabbie Joyce | Rick Aron |
| Project Manager | Volunteer Co-ordinator | Volunteer Co-ordinator | Volunteer Co-ordinator |
| Master Gardener Programme | Warwickshire Master Gardeners |
Norfolk Master Gardeners |
Lincolshire Master Gardeners |
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| Fiona Law | Nynke Brett |
Liza Scholefield |
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| Volunteer Co-ordinator | Volunteer Co-ordinator | Volunteer Co-ordinator | Prison Co-ordinator |
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North London Master Gardeners |
Medway Master Gardeners |
HMP Rye Hill Master Gardeners |
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| Linda Hull | Jo Sutch | ||
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Coventry Master Gardeners |
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Read about our future Master Gardener networks helping local people benefit from growing.
Team profiles
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I work with our co-ordinators to recruit, train and support Master Gardeners and develop and expand the programme nationally. I’m horticultural advisor for several organisations and radio, including BBC, Horticulture Week, Grow Your Own, Food For Life Partnership, and London 2012. I was a Garden Media Guild national award finalist for Journalist of the Year 2011 and Practical Journalist of the Year 2012. I love growing – starting age six, training in horticulture and management at Reading and Bath Universities, followed by practical and education roles at botanic, heritage and zoological gardens. |
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| Philip Turvil | Visit the Master Gardener Programme | ||
| Project Manager | Click here to email | Facebook |
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I work with Master Gardeners in Warwickshire to recruit, train and support our lively local network.I have previously worked promoting composting and with community volunteers at a time bank in Gloucestershire. When I first left home, I fought for my first vegetable patch with some persistent Japanese knotweed.I continue to grow vegetables in my back garden, assisted by three very enthusiastic children. | ||
| Kate Newman | Visit Warwickshire Master Gardeners | ||
| Volunteer Co-ordinator | Click here to email | Coventry & Warwickshire |
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I recruit, train and support Master Gardeners in Norfolk. I love working with people that have such great passion for helping others discover their food-growing skills.My love of food growing started a few years ago, when I moved to Norfolk and took on a large back garden, complete with greenhouse.
For me, the journey from seed to plate is addictive. |
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| Gabbie Joyce | Visit Norfolk Master Gardeners | ||
| Volunteer Co-ordinator | Click here to email | Norfolk |
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I recruit, mentor and coordinate the Lincolnshire Master Gardeners. I have previously coordinated volunteers for a furniture re-use charity.
I have grown herbs and vegetables on and off throughout my life, however, a few years ago I turned half our lawn into a vegetable patch, gave a quarter over to a few chickens leaving a slither of lawn left for our daughter to play on. Priorities! |
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| Rick Aron | Visit Lincolshire Master Gardeners | ||
| Volunteer Co-ordinator | Click here to email | Lincolnshire |
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I recruit, train and support Master Gardeners in South London. I became a Master Gardener in June at the first South London foundation course and have enjoyed growing on my small allotment for over twelve years.
I enjoy sharing my experience and the benefits of growing fruit and veg. Together with developing links for future food sustainability. I’ve worked in community and adult education as a teacher and a trainer and I’m also a qualified garden designer. |
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| Fiona Law | Visit South London Master Gardeners | ||
| Volunteer Co-ordinator | Click here to email | South London |
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I recruit, train and support Master Gardeners in North London. I have set up and managed volunteering and mentoring programmes for social entrepreneurs, young people, employees of large city firms and most recently for a new community food kitchen in Stoke Newington. I am also a certified coach and love supporting people to develop their confidence to follow new pursuits in life, whether that’s food growing or any other new passion. I am relishing the prospect of my first growing season and spending time experimenting in my new potting shed. |
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| Nynke Brett |
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| Volunteer Co-ordinator | Click here to email | ||
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I recruit, train and support Master Gardeners in Medway. I have worked with volunteers in schools and in the community. I’m a journalist, mum-of-three and chicken-keeper. As well as an enthusiastic grower of veg having run an organic veg box scheme and had allotments in several different parts of the country. I have five compost bins and an eye on a sixth! I am really keen to help bring the growing message to lots of new households in Medway. Everywhere there’s a patch of earth, there’s an opportunity. |
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| Liza Scholefield |
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| Volunteer Co-ordinator | Click here to email | ||
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| To be announced | HMP Rye Hill Master Gardeners | ||
| Prison Co-ordinator | Click here to email | ||
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I am supporting Somerset Master Gardeners with Garden Organic as part of my role at Somerset Community Food. I have worked for this exciting charity for five years on two themes: ‘Developing Food Co-ops’ and ‘Somerset Land and Food’, an access to land project. This year, I am focusing on developing an Access to Land Handbook and series of short films featuring many of the fantastic growing spaces in Somerset.
I am enjoying learning how to grow and preserve food and love to cook up a storm with anything home grown. |
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| Linda Hull | Visit Somerset Master Gardeners | ||
| Documentary and Outreach Officer | Click here to email | ||
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I recruit, train and support Coventry Master Gardeners as part of my role with the ‘Big Dig’ Project to encourage more people to come together in the city with community growing teams, households and volunteers.Having grown up with a farming dad and gardening mum, I love being outdoors and growing food. I was the Allotment Project Manager for Coventry Carers Centre and have experienced the joys and challenges of growing food on my own allotment for many years. I am inspired by how growing empowers a person by learning skills, working in a team, and enjoying the fruits of their labours. | ||
| Jo Sutch | Coventry Master Gardeners | ||
| Project Officer, Big Dig Coventry | Click here to email | Coventry |
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