About Us
Matthew Adams
Co-Founder, Director
Deep Ecologist, Environmental Quality and Resource Manager
B.Sc., Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
As a Deep Ecologist Matthew's workaims to question the dominant Worldview of control over nature to awaken and encourage individual responsibility for creating health and wellbeing for all.
Author of ‘Beyond Organic, a Vision of the Future’, published in the Soil Association’s journal Mother Earth (Vol 5, 2011). Matthew contends that food quality can be defined by its nutrient content and qualities.
If calibrated correctly, to the health of soil, water, air and biodiversity it would allow a food quality standard to be developed that promotes symbiosis. This would 'pull' quality through the supply chain, eliminate greenwashing and reward best practice. In return, this would increase beneficial soil and gut microbes that lead to regenerating the health of animals and humans.
Silke Gebauer
Project Officer
Soil Health Practitioner, Nature Facilitator
Silke joined Grffn after graduating from the Soil Food Web school where she gained hands-on experience in biological soil management for regeneration and various composting methods for food waste, and agricultural management.
On this journey, Silke has come to understand how conventional agriculture harms the whole entity of our natural world including humankind. She advocates for growing practices that respect and complement the intelligence and potentiality of our ecosystem resulting in highly nutritious and energetic food. It is clear to her that ecological and sustainable practices bring about health, happiness and harmony whilst connecting us profoundly to one another and the natural systems that sustain us.
Steve Carter
Scientific Officer
Physics teacher, then Scientific Officer for Bristol City Council. Steve ran a network of air and water pollution monitors.
Steve has lived in Somerset, Tenerife, Nottingham and then for four years on a narrowboat touring British canals; learning how to be very eco-friendly and closer to nature.
Now living in Pembrokeshire, Wales he enjoys walking the coastal path, cooking, classical music, and antique electric clocks. Steve is passionate about food - its origins, taste, and environmental impact.