A tribal community in India

Grew up in Louisiana in a little rural town with my family. My mother was totally blind and a disability rights activist and I worked with her from quite a young age. After university I went back to India with people who lived a very land based life and it's there I saw some really terrible things with nearly 70,000 people evicted from the land and moved on to little shanty towns and I think it was fundamentally transformative to me. I moved to England after I came back, I met my husband and we decided we wanted a land based life learning how to live with people, to recreate a sense of community and reconnect with the earth. All this led to a social movement of people wanting to go back to the earth and to actually heal and restore the earth.

Sunday roast with the family

Most intrigued by the way that life and death are a part of the natural world. There's a lot of pain and difficult times with things that die, that have to be composted, but you can't have nature without those cycles.

So down the road from my farm, there is a community called Monkton Wyld Court. A centre for education and sustainability that has been there since the 60's.

I know there's going to be so much pain, I know there's going to be so much destruction, there's going to be so many things that fall apart in the chaos that I feel happening. But I know that there's all these wonderful grains of knowledge and wonderful people and they understand on such a level that we've never understood before which brings so much hope that we're going to get through this.