What's been
feeding my
curiosity
What you absorb shapes what you make. This is a living record of the books, films, music, and ideas currently finding their way into my work and thinking — the ones shifting my perspective, asking good questions, or simply making me pay closer attention to what's around me. Updated as new things and curiosities are discovered.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Kimmerer braids indigenous wisdom with plant science in a way that makes you see every living thing differently. A book I find myself returning to again and again.
The One-Straw Revolution
Farm by subtraction. A quietly radical philosophy dressed as a farming manual.
Extra Virginity
Olive oil fraud as a lens on authenticity and provenance. Reads like a thriller.
Positive News
A reminder that the story we tell about the world shapes how we move through it.
Entangled Life
One of the most mind-expanding things I've read in years. Fungi underpin almost every ecosystem on earth — and Sheldrake makes you feel it.
Let My People Go Surfing
The first book anyone leading a team in the environment sector should read. Inspirational, honest, and quietly challenging about what it means to run a business with real purpose.
'We are a way for the universe to know itself.'Carl Sagan
Chef's Table
Each episode is a short film about what it means to have a philosophy — less about food than about obsession, place, and singular dedication.
Dirt
Beautifully unhurried visual storytelling. Makes you want to slow down and look closer at what's underfoot.
Chef Sam Black
Foraging, fire, and a perspective on British ingredients that feels genuinely radical. The opposite of restaurant polish.
'Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.'Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bongeziwe Mabandla
Xhosa folk & electronicTinariwen
Tuareg desert bluesThe Meltdown
Electronic · AmbientPsyché
French electronic soulDaniel Stark
Ambient · Electronic
The Emerald
Slow, ceremonial storytelling about the more-than-human world. More like a guided meditation with sharp ideas running underneath.
Sustainable Food Trust
Dense and policy-heavy at times, but essential. Nobody else is doing this work with quite the same rigour.
Outside/In
Takes something you thought was simple and opens it up into something far more complicated and interesting.
'The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.'Joseph Campbell