S1 Ep4: Changing Currents Episode 4: Be the Soil

In this episode we discuss food, agriculture, soil, and growing.

Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures featuring the voices of artists, growers, activists, local community groups, heritage workers and researchers across South Yorkshire. 

The voices you’ll hear in this episode are from founder of Bentley Urban Farm, Warren Draper, artist, designer and cultural researcher Kaajal Modi, local activist Olivia Jones, and medical herbalist Lydia Lakemoore. This conversation involved picking, preparing and sharing food together with volunteers at Bentley Urban Farm in Doncaster and an exercise led by Kaajal Modi to look closer at the soil.

Contributors
Olivia Jones is a Doncaster based activist and creative, currently working with primary schools, whose work is focused on tackling inequality for Black people, and people of the global majority living in Doncaster.Founder of Black Lives Matter and previous Creative Director of Doncopolitan.
Warren Draper 
Writer, artist, activist and co-founder of the award-winning Bentley Urban Farm in Doncaster and Doncopolitan magazine. 
Kaajal Modi 
Multidisciplinary designer, artist and creative researcher, currently completing a practice-based PhD on food fermentation and other preservation practices at the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE, Bristol.
Lydia Lakemoore 
Qualified personal trainer and medical herbalist, and runs traditional herbal apothecary The Herbalists in Doncaster.

Sound Design by Ashley Holmes
Produced by Kitty Turner
Commissioned by Arts Catalyst with funding from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.
With thanks to Bentley Urban Farm.