Karen Leason is the director and founder of OmVed Gardens, a garden, exhibition space and sustainable food project in north London, which aims to re-establish the connection between the urban population, food and nature. A partner of the UN World Food Programme and Chefs Manifesto, OmVed aims to educate and inspire conversations around sustainable food practices and ecological transformations. Committed to foster creativity and community-led change, OmVed Gardens plays host to an inspiring collective of artists, creatives, horticulturalists and chefs. Follow @omvedgardens to find out more and join their upcoming events.

Describe the nature around you?

I have a view of rooftops from my bedroom with a trellis of honeysuckle and a vine filtering the view and waving in the breeze.

What lessons has nature taught you?

The complexity of nature is irreplaceable and we can regenerate spaces up to a point but we also need to step back.

Describe OmVed Gardens in three words

Learning, changing, growing.

Your website states that OmVed 'creates collaborations around the topics of food, creativity and ecological transformation' and seeks 'to nurture, create and contemplate.' Can you discuss this?

As we have delved into these topics it has become clearer that what is healthy for the soil is also healthy for us humans and that growing food that nurtures the earth also nurtured us. We are made of the earth. Our best collaborations are equally co- creations.

How would you define a food system rebellion?

A rebellion is no longer accepting a system that leaves people hungry and degrades the land.

How can we begin to think more collectively?

Getting to know our neighbours and coming together to celebrate, discuss and debate helps us to be able to consider another point of view.

How can gardens heal ourselves and our communities?

We can meet each other and ourselves as humans in the garden.

Is there anything else you'd like to share with our readers?

At Omved Gardens we continue to be curious about the world around us and how we can live creating more nurturing habitats for humans and non humans within a nurturing world.

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