Meet The Good Gardeners

Meet the people working to develop local solutions for global problems.

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Richard Higgins, Chairman & CEO

Richard Higgins NDA., PDC., Philosopher and Holistic Scientist is the Founder and Director of Sustainable Agriculture London and the chairman of Good Gardeners International.

Richard was raised on a Somerset mixed farm in the UK and studied his NDA at the Royal Berkshire College of Agriculture. He later completed a ten-year postgraduate study of the fertility making works of Sir Albert Howard while travelling and teaching from China to Hawaii.

Howard is now considered the Grandfather of organic farming and his research from the Permanent Agriculture of the east (which is where the term Permaculture was derived), and the growing system that he employed in conjunction with the Good Gardeners No Dig technology has formed the foundation of the Howard-Higgins Horticultural system today. 

Support Team

  • Amie Higgins AAT., Treasurer
  • Tammi Gustafson, Environmentalist and Community Leader
  • Alison Appiah, Health practitioner and Consultant.  Schools Programmes UK 
  • Emma Greenwood, Dorset Biosolutions promotion and marketing
  • Julie Felix, our patron (opposite)              Julie Felix (1938 – 2020) was an American-British    folk singer  
  • Richard Higgins Chairman, CEO, course presenter and inspirational speaker.
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Principal Officers

  • Chief executive and chief operating officer: Richard Higgins has spent his whole adult life researching and developing sustainable living practices. We are now registered with NIAB as an Innovation farm.

  • Executive director of science and conservation: Since 1995 Richard Higgins has worked with scientific institutions and Universities to bring in the technology of producing fertiliser based on fungi and bacteria.

  • Emma Greenwood has partnered her company Dorset Bio Solutions with GGI  to help promote her and our technology to the world. 

NorgesVel, part of The Royal Norwegian Society, Dorset Bio Solutions and Rothamsted Reseaerch have sent their senior advisors to visit the Good Gardeners Demonstration Farm

Trustees & Professional Services

Trustees Emeriti

Ramsay Shewell Cooper, Arkley Manor, Barnet (deceased)

David Wilkin, Pinetum Estate, Gloucestershire

Professional Services

We are registered with AMAZON and they will donate, when you type in AMAZON SMILE to make a purchase.

Auditors:

Paul Bradley, chartered accountants, Gloucestershire

 

Bankers:

Lloyds Bank

 

Our Partners

We work with incredible partners to develop and install our HH systems.

Support Us

We work tirelessly to install our solutions to help tackle some of the biggest problems we face – sustainable waste management, pollution free farming and our DRY sanitation system. With your help, we can accelerate this work.

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