Jonathan Drori, Sarah Raven and Tim Smit
Sarah Raven worked as a doctor at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton before becoming a broadcaster, teacher and writer. She has cooked all her life for family and friends with an emphasis and commitment to goodness, healthiness and general wellbeing. Sarah runs her own cookery and gardening school at Perch Hill in East Sussex, and has established a mail order gardening company with 80,000 active customers. She has made regular appearances on the BBC’s Great British Garden Revival and Gardener’s World; and she is the author of Sarah Raven’s Food for Friends and Family, Sarah Raven’s Complete Christmas, Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook (which was the Guild of Food Writers’ Cookery Book of the Year 2008), Sarah Raven’s Wild Flowers and The Cutting Garden.
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Jonathan Drori is a trustee of The Eden Project and Cambridge University Botanic Garden, an Ambassador for the Woodland Trust and the WWF, and Honorary Professor at Birmingham University’s Institute of Forest Research. He is also the author of the runaway best sellers, Around the World In 80 Trees and Around the World in 80 Plants, revealing in awe-inspiring detail how the worlds of trees and plants are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. Previously, Jon was a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and for BBC TV, he was responsible for more than fifty science documentaries and series. He is known for several botanical TED talks, which have been viewed millions of times.
Sir Tim Smit is the co-founder and executive vice-chair of the Eden Project, which saw a decommissioned quarry transformed into a cradle of life and a powerful exploration of human dependence on – and part within – the systems of the natural world. Sir Tim is also a director of the Lost Gardens of Heligan, which he ‘discovered’ and restored with John Nelson in 1990, and executive co-chair for Eden Project International, which creates Eden Projects with partners on every inhabited continent.