Our team
The Team
Sustainable Food Somerset is run by a Board of Trustees who are all volunteers but who bring extensive experience in campaigning, charity fundraising, business management, marketing and communications, as well as a passionate interest in food, farming and environmental issues. We also have a range of partners working on food, farming and sustainability issues throughout Somerset
Stewart Crocker
Chair of Sustainable Food Somerset, a founding member of its predecessor Wells Food Network and co-founder of the Somerset Food Trail, Stewart has a background in both farm management and campaigning. He started his career in farming but became an environmental conservationist. His appointments include Executive Director of Waste Watch and Senior Independent Board Member and Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth 2008-16. He brings director level experience of charity fundraising, campaigning, business management and leadership to the team.
Kim Robinson
A founding trustee of Wells Food Network and a long-term trustee of Somerset Community Food, Kim now leads on the grass-roots community activity of Sustainable Food Somerset (the happy merger of these two organisations).
Having left the corporate rat-race in London, she became involved in a wide range of the food related activism for which Somerset is rightly famous. With a professional background in business consultancy and project management, she's worked on local projects to develop food co-ops, acquire land for community growing projects, teach care-leavers to cook, as well as the County's plan to develop greater food resilience. She ran a food distribution business throughout lockdown, supporting Somerset producers whose usual sales outlets were closed. In her spare time, she's a keen cook and gardener.
Graham Harvey
Environmental campaigner and writer Graham Harvey has spent 40 years delivering hard-hitting critiques of industrial agriculture and its impact on wildlife and the countryside. He was the former agricultural story editor of Radio 4's The Archers ("I liked to think of myself as a kind of undercover agent for nature embedded in this much-loved programme," he says) and a winner of the Natural World Book Prize for environmental writing. Now he's bringing his passion for 'real farming' to Sustainable Food Somerset.
Liz Pickering
Liz has over 25 years’ experience working in marketing communications and events management for clients across a wide range of sectors: Sicilian Wines, BBCi Food, London Elects, London Tourist Board and the Home Office, to name a few. As a Trustee of Wells Food Network and Sustainable Food Somerset, she has helped curate and promote three Somerset Food Trail festivals and is now part of the team behind LandAlive, a new sustainable food and farming conference in partnership with The Royal Bath & West of England Society. In spare time, she's working with FWAG and Reimagining the Levels to restore a water meadow on the edge of the Somerset Levels to boost biodiversity and 'slow the flow' into the river Cary. The scheme involves planting hundreds of metres of new hedges, digging scrapes, riparian planting, woodland creation, and lots of mud. But also skylarks, hares and barn owls!
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Tamara Giltsoff
Tamara is a Strategy and Innovator leader focused on Climate, Nature, Regenerative Agriculture, and Innovative Finance. She is currently a Senior Associate of The Good Economy, and a Strategy Partner at Soil Association Exchange, working in partnership with The Green Finance Institute (GFI) and British Business Bank. She has co-founded two start-ups, has held a senior innovation role in UK government, and has worked with corporate clients, within impact investment, venture capital, and development finance, and the wider financial system, as a strategic consultant and advisor. She started her career in design, following study at art school, and brings a creative mind to systemic challenges.
Caroline Lewis
Caroline is Sustainable Food Somerset's administrator. She organises its grass-roots community food conferences, connects projects and collates and publishes its Incredible Edible Somerset newsletter. She has been working on community food projects since 2002, including running courses to help develop growing and cooking skills, setting up a local veg bag scheme and mapping community activities across the county. She has been involved in national strategic food consultation and community grant funding panels. Outside of work, she enjoys volunteering and sustaining a naturally bountiful garden at home.
Susie Weldon
A communications professional, Susie is a founding member of Wells Food Network (the predecessor to Sustinable Food Somerset), and the Somerset Food Trail. She was an award-winning journalist for 20 years before moving into international development and communications. She has strong experience of managing and promoting environmental issues, such as sustainable agriculture.
