Lorraine Campbell
Soil Food web consultant and lab tech

How I got here 

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My life has taken me on many different paths over the years, but creativity and simple living have been my main stay. Never too far from nature, running around outside as a child in all but the worst weather. A nomadic life on the road as a seasonal fruit picker, living in a van for many years and later with my own garden, allotment and land.

 

I'm aware of our beautiful natural world slowly slipping away through the use of chemical fertilisers, pest control, tilling, tree felling, mono cropping, pharmaceuticals and processed food, the list goes on and has made me weary. All these inputs affect everything from Mental Health, Disease and Climate. Really we have lost our way.

 

My experience while working for many years on chemical agricultural fruit farms, picking, packing, pruning, planting and tractor driving, showed me that working with chemicals are both dangerous and harmful to all who come in contact with them... fruit pickers and farm workers, nature, water courses and then up into the  atmosphere creating a headache for Mother Nature. 

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When I started a course with Dr Elaine Ingham, it was very easy to see the correlation between soil and health. This has really interested me as I have always been a sceptic of chemicals and pharmacueuticals. Why are they added to everything? It's just not necessary. I've always been a firm believer that Nature has an answer for everything, and that the body has an inherent ability to heal itself if one is healthy.

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Elaines extensive research to understand the relationship between plants and their microbial partners, has given me to fully understand the vital role that soil plays with a plants health and ultimately the food arriving on our table, which if grown with their soil partners, can replenishes our gut biome. This isn't fully acknowledged or known in the world we live in. Taking supplements maybe helps but what does your body absorb out of them? If we could take a snap shot of our gut biomes, would we have the same strains of bacteria as our ancesters? Personally I don't think so. New scientific research shows that we need to eat 30 different plant foods a week to guarantee a gut biome diverse enough to protect our bodies from disease and the toxins in the world we live in today.

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Having now found my place in the world, my intention moving forward is to educate and help as many, gardeners, lawn carers, growers and farmers to get on board with this approach and help shift the paradigm.... We need to move away from chemical farming now and start to work with Mother nature, instead of destroying her.​

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How can we help you make the shift?

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