I grew up in a Camphill Community in Northern Ireland. I moved to England and then to Scotland where I studied Geography at Aberdeen University where I was active in the environmental and fairtrade society supplying local organic vegetables to other students. This sparked my interest in agriculture, sustainability and food systems. At the same time the vibrant music scene in the city inspired me to pick up the guitar and start writing songs. After completing my studies, I embarked on a six-month journey, playing gigs and street concerts which eventually led me to a beautiful garden in Järna, Sweden. I spent the next 15 years working in there with small scale agriculture and vegetable fermentation. In 2017, I co-founded a community supported garden cooperative for biodynamically grown, fermented vegetables. I have been engaged in several EU projects that focus on promoting school gardens, food fermentation for gardeners, and perennial vegetable production. I now find myself in Northern Portugal embarking upon a new project, getting to know a piece of forest and understanding our potential to support each other. Looking back it is easy to see a red line in the path that becomes a biography but in the moment it is a crossroads, a meeting, a moment of inspiration, or desperation, and a step into the unknown. I look forward to sharing some of my crossroads with you and some insights that have inspired me. Insights from people on the way, from food fermentation, from growing vegetables, from passing snails, from looking at flowers... the list goes on.
Brigid LeFevre
