stephen watts

Working with Richard Clare, who founded SOFI, taught me lots about food growing . Richard has been a food grower for 20 yrs and he has been teaching for about 15 yrs. He tries to get students to learn from his mistakes. My own skills in food growing would be much less developed if i had not worked reguarly with Richard on his allotments. Not only did he teach me about Organic food production, and Biodynamics, he also taught me about Organic psycology, known as Horticology, - the mind sets which people view the organic world. This helps one understand how people make mistakes when attempting food production, due to not undertanding the plant which they are attemping to grow, often due to the fact that they think they know what the plant wants.
I try to teach people how to listen to plants, and i do this by trying to listen to what the plants want themselves, to exist.