Sheila Das
2024
Sheila studied at Kew, worked for English Heritage, and has been a Garden Manager at RHS Wisley since 2015. Sheila and her team are currently radically developing 19 acres of edible landscape at Wisley, demonstrating diverse ways of growing which will enable visitors to connect with holistic systems needed to support healthy food growing in an authentic and sustainable way. Sheila believes that connecting people with how good quality food grows can enable everyone to make better choices for personal health, planetary health and also forge a deeper connection with those who grow our food.
My Sessions
Does Our Healthy Eating Crisis Need Growers to Step up to the Plate?
Everything we eat is born from the soil, so why is ‘healthy eating’ still focused on the fork? Along with chefs and nutritionists, growers form the Golden Triangle of good food. Incredible dishes aren’t possible without nutrient-dense produce. Growers must understand the power they wield from what they grow – in short, their role in […]