Who are we and why Biome Box?
Biome Box started with a simple observation. Most of what we eat comes from a handful of crops, grown on soil that gets poorer every year. Narrow diets and narrow farming are the same problem seen from two ends.
Teri Clayton started Biome Box after years of watching the countryside lose its variety — fewer plants, fewer insects, thinner soil. Her interest is in what happens when that runs the other way: when people eat a wider range of plants, more growers can afford to grow them, and more land gets farmed in ways that put something back.
None of this asks anyone to overhaul their life. One unfamiliar leaf in a salad, one hedgerow berry turned into vinegar, one herb you had not cooked with before. That is where it starts.
Teri Clayton — Founder
Teri grew up in rivers and up trees, and has spent the years since working out how soil, plants and people connect. She writes most of what you will read here.
David Schofield
Co-founder of Biome Box and the operational mind behind it. A fractional COO by profession, a father, and Teri's partner in life and in business. Builds the structure that lets good things last.
Regeneration
To make eating a wide variety of plants ordinary, and growing them viable.
That means two things. Helping people work out what to do with wild, perennial and heritage foods they have not met before — which is most of what you will find on this site. And supporting the small-scale growers and foragers who produce them, because a plant nobody buys is a plant nobody plants.
Who's providing the produce?
Biome Box contributes towards greater food security, as well as helping to ensure healthy food is grown in harmony with nature, in as many unique ways as possible. We are helping to sow the seeds of a better future for caring farmers, ensuring nature can thrive on our small scale farms, alongside abundant food production. We are not simply encouraging more trees and wider field margins, but instead are supporting more interconnected and harmonious farming systems.
This increases the quality of life for both farmers and nature, now and for future generations to come.
We are committed to sourcing foods from producers that do things their own way. Producing food in the best way they know how, constantly learning and adapting, whilst inspiring greater connection and collaboration with nature.
We are supporting growers in creating permanent plantations, with our ideal model being small scale forest gardens and perennial market gardens.
Our growers and sources of inspiration are already showing us that it can be done - we're simply supporting this happening on a wider scale, with the support of our customers behind us!
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