Eilidh MacPhail @emacp.bsky.social Lecturer, Sustainable Development, UHI. Scottish & EU politics and public policy researcher. Rural. Islands. Communities. Online learning.
Scottish Food Coalition @foodcoalition.scot A diverse alliance of organisations working for a just transition to a fair, healthy, sustainable food system.
Alice Porter @aliceporter.bsky.social Currently learning to deal with psoriatic arthritis, was a mature student aiming for vetmed until COVID blew up my life/health so now ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Mother of sheep.
Karen Grant @kgrantslc.bsky.social Good Practice Adviser on Land Rights and Responsibilities at the Scottish Land Commission. All views my own.
Wendy Barrie @wendybarriescot.bsky.social Cook. Writer. Campaigner. Creator award-winning Scottish Food Guide, Cheese Trail & Farm Shops. Thistle Regional Ambassador. Leader Slow Food Scotland Ark of Taste. Co-author โMeadows:The Swedish Farmer & The Scottish Cookโ
James Crawford @jdcrawf.bsky.social THE VANISHING EARTH @bloomsbury @scribeuk PRE-ORDER NOW https://geni.us/vanishingearth | WILD HISTORY @BirlinnBooks | Presenter @BBCRadio4 TAKE FOUR BOOKS | Editor @PolygonBooks | CHAIR of the Board @edbookfest jamescrawford.space
Ben Raskin @benraskin.bsky.social Head of Agroforestry Soil Association. Eastbrook Farm #Agroforestry. Author Silvohorticulture / The Woodchip Handbook
www.benraskin.uk
Emily Norton @emilymnorton.bsky.social LLB, MSc, ARAgS. Vinegrower, farmer.
www.farmforesight.co.uk
IPES-Food @ipes-food.org We are the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) : a global think-tank guiding action for #sustainable #foodsystems around the world.๐
๐ฑ Follow us for all things #food, #hunger, #climate.
โก๏ธ https://ipes-food.org
Pat Quirke @patquirke.bsky.social Husband, parent, estate agent, sometime cyclist. Farming as Fortwilliam Pedigree Angus. Selling property in Co. Tipperary as pfq.ie
Laura Penny @laurapenny.bsky.social PhD student @uniexecec.bsky.social with ECORISC CDT. Studying effects of veterinary medicines on dung beetles. ๐ชฒ ๐
๐ฉ I spend a lot of time looking at cow pats.
๐ฆ Mad about moths
she/her
Tuomas Mattila @tuomasjmattila.eurosky.social Farmer, principal scientist (SYKE), soil health advocate.
Assoc. prof. Agroecology, Dr.Sc.Tech, Holistic Management CEd, Ecological Engineer.๐ฑ๐ชฑ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐งช
Mauricio Lopes @mauricioalopes.bsky.social Scientist & Innovator | Expert in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Agriculture & Bioeconomy | Passionate about modelling, future studies, sustainable agriculture and research-driven innovation | Haiku
Farming & Water Scotland @farmwaterscot.bsky.social Sharing practical ideas to protect water quality, reduce diffuse pollution risk and benefit the farm business. Find us online at www.farmingandwaterscotland.org & on Facebook @FarmWaterScot
Viola King Forbes @violakf.bsky.social Geographer ๐ Food Systems ๐พ Land Use ๐ณ Complexity ๐
PhD researcher @sussex.ac.uk & City, Centre for Food Policy.
Previously @oxfordgeography.bsky.social & Cambridge Geography
@thatcharlottesmith.bsky.social @thatcharlottesmith.bsky.social Gob on a stick - TV/Radio/Conference Host
Mainly with @bbccountyfile and @bbcfarmingtoday.
Available for warmer work
Jake Fiennes @jakefiennes.bsky.social Enhancement of the natural world, food, environment, landscape and people.
Peter powell @peterpowell.bsky.social CEO at Welsh Dee Trust.
Our objective: A river Dee free of pollution and full of wildlife.
Farmer at Cefn Ucha Farm.
Objective: food, nature and not going bust
Barbara Bray MBE @barbarabray.bsky.social Middle-aged, perimenopausal PhD researcher in healthy ageing diets at Queenโs University Belfast. Charity trustee and 2017 Nuffield Farming Scholar.
Welsh Organic Tannery @welshtannery.bsky.social An organic tannery based on our smallholding in West Wales producing chromium free, fully machine washable sheepskin and goatskin rugs. ๐๐
Nearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social Global Ecosystem Renewal
Wildlife Habitat, Land and Water Restoration, Rewilding, Biodiversity, Permaculture, Megafauna, Woodpasture, Nature Friendly Farming
Shepherdess @liminalsage.bsky.social Ballyhoo Fiber Emporium on other platforms. Rabbinical student, Ovinologist, protected by 6 black hounds. I keep the old ways and the older ways.
๐๐ฑ๐งถ๐๐๐ช
Joe Collins @jwollins.bsky.social Senior Research Associate at Earth Rover Program and Harper Adams University. Interested in sustainable farming, agronomy, and soil science.
Donna Gillies @treehugger1.bsky.social Wild farming, Hebridean sheep, Scottish independence, wool. Small things matter. www.thehirsel.com, www.highlandwool.scot
Patrick Galbraith @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social Author of Uncommon Ground, 2025, William Collins
Columnist for The Critic & Country Life
Environment Correspondent for The Telegraph
James Preuss @jamespreuss.bsky.social 5 Gen Southern Yorkes farmer | Company Director | Genetics ๐ฑ๐๐ฎ๐breeding | family ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ
Ask hard questions, learning and dabble in factual antagonism
Tom Sizmur @tomsizmur.bsky.social Soil Scientist at the University of Reading interested in biogeochemistry, regenerative agriculture, soil health, sustainable food, environmental pollution, soil food webs, organic amendments, and biodiversity https://sites.google.com/site/tomsizmur/home
Stuart Somerville ๐ดโโ ๏ธ @stuthefarmer.bsky.social Farmer on the dusty prairie; a dad; a bagpiper; a school teacher; a yeoman; a Luddite; a Ukrainian-Catholic Celt. 1% Portuguese. Basically a Viking.
Trying to live in a good way.
Treaty 6 and 7.
Ana Reynolds @monseigneurb.bsky.social Farmer, nature enthusiast.
Alan Puttock @alanputtock.bsky.social Ecohydrologist and Lecturer
at the University of Exeter, UK. Focused on Nature Based Solutions, Natural Flood Management, Beaver Reintroduction and Landscape Restoration.
Staff Profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/22145-alan-puttock
Megan Gimber (Hedge Geek) @favcolourgreen.bsky.social Habitat conservation - hedgerows, woodpasture, veteran trees | Boat dwelling, booze brewing, gin infusing, beekeeping, food loving, adventure seeking feminist.
Optimist.
Suzanna @suzannacrampton.bsky.social Ireland, blanket designing shepherd, farms with nature, writes, farm tours, soil health, biodiversity of flora & fauna, dung beetles, regenerative farmer, gardener
https://zwartblesireland.com/shop/
https://m.youtube.com/@SuzannaCramptonIreland/featured
@hertsfarmer.bsky.social @hertsfarmer.bsky.social
Wilder Norfolk @wildernorfolk.bsky.social Countryside & Conservation * Habitat Creation * Fauna & Flora * Nature Recovery * Landscape History * Old & Interesting things * Repair & Restore * Learning Antiques * Food & Drink * Camping * Hardline Moderate * Sentimental Idiot * Anchovies * ๐คฟ * ๐ฒ
Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social Nature recovery. Writer. Chair Natural England. Fellow CISL. Chair Cool Earth. Council Member Fauna & Flora. Former Friends of the Earth, Wildlife Trusts, WWF, BirdLife International. www.tonyjuniper.com
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social Our Planet. Decoded.
๐๏ธ Counting The Earth podcast: https://tinyurl.com/CTEarthpodcast
๐ฐ Newsletter sign-up: https://tinyurl.com/ukceh-news
Martin Lines @linesmartin.bsky.social Arable farmer and farming contractor near St Neots Cambridgeshire. CEO of the Nature Friendly Farming Network. https://www.nffn.org.uk/
John Pawsey โ๏ธ @hanslope.bsky.social Organic Farmer @ShimplingPark from the #ValeOfPawsey (Itโs like the #ValeOfPewsey but flatter with a vowel difference) Growing food, sinking carbon & recovering nature #FRAgS
TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social Global platform for inclusive dialogue on the future of food. Collaboration between five universities.
Get our newsletter: http://tabledebates.org/fodder ๐ง
Our podcast: https://www.tabledebates.org/podcasts
Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social Journalist. Activist. Working for a better tomorrow today.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
Lydia Collas @lydiacollas.bsky.social Food, farming, land use @ Green Alliance.
PhD in ag policy.
Soil Association @thesoilassociation.bsky.social Soil Association is the charity that digs deeper to transform the way we eat, farm and care for our natural world
Community guidelines ๐http://soilassociation.co/3EmLtsK
Johann Tasker @johanntasker.bsky.social Agri-politics, food & farming. Co-host of the @FarmersWeekly Podcast; & the @Mighty8thPod with @MikeHistorian; former chairman @GAJinfo 2022-24
Dr. Rebecca Sandover @rebeccasandover.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Human Geography University of Exeter and working with the sustainable food movement. Researching Public Participation in Environmental Governance.
#sustainablefood #foodmovement
Hannah Forde @hannahforde.bsky.social Senior Researcher & Wellcome Trust Early Career Awardee in the Sustainable Healthy Food Group @oxprimarycare.bsky.social | Visiting Research Fellow in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol | she/her https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/hannah-forde
Sarah Arnold @sejarnold.bsky.social Entomologist, likes pollination, insect behaviour, IPM, horticulture and agriculture, sustainability, nature and especially wild bees.
Works at Niab (UK). Views my own. she/her
Neurodivergent, quirky, sometimes wrong but usually teachable.
Matthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social NYU Associate Professor of Environmental Studies. Climate, animals, land use, and food systems. MatthewHayek.com
The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative @thegsbi.bsky.social A global scientific and policy platform advancing the understanding, monitoring and protection of soil biodiversity.
Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social - Executive Director, Project Drawdown drawdown.org
- Climate scientist, working on solutions
- Passionate about science, communication, and hope
- Minnesota based, Maine born
- Personal account / My views
netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social Nether Holbrook Farm, Rutland. Shepherd, gosherd, keeper of hens & other livestock. Heritage fruit orchard. Growing & preserving my own organic food. Interested in art, history, landscape, nature, gardening & rural life. Owned by emus. #RoseWednesday ๐น
British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org We are working towards a world inspired by ecology in which nature and people thrive.
Megan Blake @geofoodie.bsky.social Researcher of #foodscapes, how to repair the effects of food insecurity and transition toward more healthy and just local food systems. Interested in creating impact. Developer of #FoodLadders. #Geography #foodstudies See more on http://geofoodie.org
Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social Post-doc #foodpolicy researcher. Role of policymaking processes and governance structures in #foodsystems. What's in the policy toolbox for transforming #foodsystems. Food #systemsthinking. Food #policycoherence. Kellyparsons.co.uk. @thefoodrules
Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy at ETH Zรผrich.
Website https://sites.google.com/view/fingerrobert/home
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=V7yA_rcAAAAJ&hl=en
Olivier Honnay @olivierhonnay.bsky.social Conservation biology | Agronomic ecology | Trade-offs | Professor KU Leuven | KU Leuven Plant Institute | Non-utopian
https://bio.kuleuven.be/faculty/00012061
Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social James Beard winning WaPo columnist writing about food & science, author of TO BOLDLY GROW, gentleman oyster farmer.
Dr Marcus Rhodes @marcusrhodes.bsky.social Ecologist in pursuit of butterflies. Postdoc at the University of Exeter, Cornwall working on nature recovery and species' responses to climate change. Chair of Cornwall Butterfly Conservation. He/Him
Tom Clarke ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป @tom-clarke.bsky.social Accidental farmer | conservationist @ElyNFFarming #FederalUK
Views my own
Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Working with colleagues around the world to create a sustainable food future. DC-based. Own views.
Jake Drum @jakedrum.bsky.social I relish family, food, funny, rhythm & things that last like love & entropy.
My work:
@ogagrowers.bsky.social
& UKGrainLab & Wales Real Food & Farming Conference
Alan MacDonald @estaitis.bsky.social Early modern Scotland, environment, agriculture, government, cider-making, green/left pessimist
Abi Mordin @abimordin.bsky.social Sustainable food systems. Agroecology. Food Sovereignty. Regenerative Farmer & Market Gardener. Coops and Sociocracy. Social Change Activist. Glass half full ๐ฅ... Just about!
South West Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
www.propagate.org.uk
Chloe MacLaren @agent-sprout.bsky.social Plant (agro)ecologist ๐ฑ๐พ๐ปโ๏ธ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ
Working for SLU in Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
Research on cropping systems in Europe and southern Africa ๐
From New Zealand ๐ณ๐ฟ
Darren Evans @dmevans.bsky.social Professor of Ecology & Conservation. Director of Expertise - Ecosystems in School of Natural and Environmental Sciences @newcastleuni.bsky.social, UK. Researching network ecology/environmental change. Senior Editor
@animalecology.bsky.social. Views my own
Sarah Barnes @sarahbarnes.bsky.social Part time farming, interested in regenerative practices
Sally Urwin @pintsizedfarmer.bsky.social I'm a very short farmer's wife from Northumberland and author of A Farmer's Diary and What the Flock. Owner of the late FatPony, Wonky and more....(and massively fascinated by #UAP and #paranormal phenomenon)
Arwen @cwtch-up.bsky.social Books, films, dogs, textiles, chickens ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social Research Fellow on future food systems transformations โ๏ธ๐ฟ ๐ฆ ๐ and archaeologist of past food systems ๐ฌ๐พ๐บ
Hugh Jones๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ @hughjones.bsky.social Farmer ,Sheep breeder and Bullock feeder. Grass rotational grazer .Tree and hedge planter . Jack of all trades. Ideology sceptic .Appeared on Crimewatch. Pro vaccination.
Jenny Wheatley @jenjenlaird.bsky.social Wondering & wandering. Duly concerned.
Supporting understanding & decency.
From farming stockโฆ tโquiet sanctuary in the Dales. For finding solace & building strength. Off-kilter neโer far off. #autistic #human
Holly Pringle @hollypringle.bsky.social ๐ฑ Ecology PhD student, Biome Health Project, UCL
๐ฆ Research interests: human & livestock impacts on wildlife, camera traps, mammals
๐ Bedfordshire, UK
๐พ Bipedal companion to retired IED detection dog Charlie
@goatdocholly.bsky.social @goatdocholly.bsky.social
Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social Wildlife gardening.. love insects, plants, birds, fungi, grass snakes, trees, moths, rivers, caterpillars & all things wild, especially solitary bees, bumblebees... and Dippers!
Art. Poetry. Cornwall
Author 'Dancing with Bees - a Journey Back to Nature'
James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social New book The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) now in all good bookshops
Alison Smith @eci-bio.bsky.social Research into nature recovery, nature-based solutions, green infrastructure and land-use strategy at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Views my own.
matthay44 @matthay44.bsky.social Ex-weatherman, mountain leader and aspiring author. Put the planet first and the rest will followโ๐ผ
Simon Phelps @simonphelps.bsky.social Conservationist, naturalist, wildlife photographer and writer. https://wildlifephelps.wixsite.com/wildlifephelps
Paul Chapman ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ @paulchap-abz.bsky.social Wildlife ecology, conservation, land management, orienteering, hill walking. Senior consultant @sacconsulting.bsky.social. Views my own.
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social Well. Here we all are.
Issues, crisis & strategic comms for food, farming, science & industry. PhD @ Uni of Nottingham Vet School, graduate @ SRUC, displaced Scot & serial dog adopter. AKA Amy Jackson.
Rob Percival @rob-percival.bsky.social Author of 'The Meat Paradox'. Head of Food Policy at the Soil Association https://www.soilassociation.org/. Agroecology, Food Systems, Sustainable Diets. Views my own. http://linktr.ee/rob_percival_
John O Loughlin @joloughlin.eurosky.social Irish, crops farmer, cyclist, science nerd, sports fan
Pete M ๐ณ @pete-m.bsky.social | Climate | Environment | Wildness | ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ ๐ |
Work: Decarbonisation and circularity
Life: Making a small patch of North Wales wilder. Often found outdoors.
There will also be politics. Because everything comes back to politics.
Pรกdraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social Rewilding all the way, Ireland
Ariel Greenwood @arielgreenwood.bsky.social Ranching in the New Mexico high country & trying to thread the needle of stewardship and cows on 200 square miles of leased land
grassnomads.com
Tom Lancaster @tommlancaster.bsky.social Land, food & farming lead @eciu.bsky.social working across climate, farming and land use issues. Previously did agriculture and land use policy at RSPB. Views all mine.
Robert Fraser @robertfraser.bsky.social Livestock farmer. Executive Director of Real Farming Trust. Impact Investment Advisor. Self catering holidays. Views my own.
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
MA, PGCE, FBNA, Patron #JohnClare Countryside, Trustee of British Naturalists' Assoc. Rep: Joanna Swainson
David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social Estate Manager. Rider of Bikes. Photographer. Farming, Forestry and Conservation Meddler.
Director: Oxford Farming Conference
Trustee: Action for the River Kennet
Dustin Benton @dbenton.bsky.social Sustainability MD Forefront Advisers. Prev:@GreenAllianceUK; Chief Analyst @food_strategy. Generic personal achievement. Folksy identifier. Humblebrag. #hashtag
Vicki Hird MSc FRES @vickihird.bsky.social Food, farming, environment policy, just transition, research, strategy, talks, writing, blogs, books.
Passion for bugs
Author - 'Rebugging the Planet' & 'Perfectly Safe to Eat?'
Shareโ agree
https://linktr.ee/vickihird
Works @WildlifeTrusts @britishwildlife
Dr. Stephanie Roe @stephanieroe.bsky.social Global Climate Lead Scientist @WWF
IPCC Lead author AR7 and AR6
Working at the intersection of climate, biodiversity & sustainable development.
Research: Ecosystems, Food, CDR, Energy
Pinay, mom, sunshine hunter, LOL-er
Abi Reader @abireader.bsky.social Farmer, Deputy President NFU Cymru, confounder of CowsOnTour, promoting rural life & rural issues, Wales
Rob Yorke @robyorke.bsky.social environmental/rural commentator, curator, moderator, unaffiliated https://robyorke.co.uk/curate-convene-moderate/ | sharing research with a pithy twist and pic๐งช
Root and Reason (formerly AFN Network+) @rootandreason.bsky.social Shaping change in the UK food system by cultivating informed, system-wide collaboration. We connect policymakers, businesses, front-line services and community groups- linking evidence & practice to design & implement change that works
rootandreason.org.uk