Introducing: Kloë Wood Lyndorff: ‘Our future as a species is totally reliant on us reconnecting with nature’

From: West Cork

Back to earth: “My background is in academia but it was incredibly sterile,” Kloë says. “I got to the point when I was craving to get my hands into the soil and get some fresh air.” Now she runs Two Green Shoots in Glengarriff with her horticulturalist partner, Adam Carveth.

Fruitful: “Our garden is an edible paradise. With a mountain range around us, we have unique growing conditions. The garden is a celebration of edible plants from all over the world blended with wild native plants.”

Bonding: “Food is such a lovely way of connecting people with planting in places,” she says. Their new venture is an hour’s guided foraging and then they gather in a clearing in the woods and they prepare a lunch together with the food they have picked.

Peace: “We get lots of people from cities, especially Dublin. They want to get out of built-up urban environments and reconnect with green. Our future as a species on this planet is totally reliant on us reconnecting with nature and our wild spaces. It’s the most immediate solution to putting right the damage we have done.”​

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