CO-FOUNDER/DIRECTOR, PROJECT MANAGER,

COMMUNITY HERBAL EDUCATOR, GROWER

Mariam Mohamed is a community herbalist, medical herbalist trainee, grower and mother who lives in Totnes, South Devon. She was born and raised in London and her ancestral roots are of Somali heritage.

She is passionate about bringing accessible herbalism into our communities. She has been studying herbalism for the last seven years having trained with the Plant Medicine School, Exmoor in community herbalism and is currently working towards completing her training in clinical herbalism.  Alongside running community herbalism workshops, she organises wellbeing spaces in nature for black, mixed heritage and people of colour, often exploring themes around identity, belonging and healing with the land. Her work centres around land justice, belonging in the countryside, decolonisation and reclaiming relationship with land.

She is passionate about ethnobotany and our relationship to the botanical world and holds an MSc in Anthropology, Environment and Development. She has lived with rural farmers in Kenya, agroecological farmers in Brazil, in permaculture and agroecology projects in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, and spent time with indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, all of which has greatly informed her relationship to land, growing, herbal medicine and traditional land-based knowledge.

CO-FOUNDER/DIRECTOR

Gabriele Warwick works in ecological land management and outdoor education. He is passionate about plants and how we relate to them. This journey has taken him from completing a masters in environmental anthropology where he researched agroecology in the Brazilian Amazon to his current obsession with wild plants and food in the UK. He has studied ethnobotany with John Rhyder at the Woodcraft School.

Gabriele runs plant walks, bringing people into closer connection to the plant world through telling stories, cooking wild food, making herbal remedies and crafting. He hopes to spark a fascination in people for the beauty of the natural world and to open people’s eyes up to the endless ways in which we can use plants.

He is known to juggle a range of interesting jobs and currently leads canoe trips with Canoe Adventures for both adults and children, runs tree planting days for Moor trees. In the past he has grown oyster mushrooms for GroCycle, managed land for wildlife on a Dartmoor estate, conducted bat and soil surveys and worked as a researcher at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University.

HEAD GARDENER AND CO-DIRECTOR

Ellen is a plantperson, folk herbalist, artist and musician from Canterbury. She has dual heritage, both English and Greek-Cypriot. She joined Radical Plant Folk as Head Gardener in the Spring of 2024. Since moving to South Devon in 2020 Ellen has honed her skills as a grower and wild-crafter. Amidst volunteering at local growing projects, she gained experience working as a forest gardener, researcher and nursery person. Ellen takes great interest in ethnobotany, medicine, music and folklore. Infatuated with the secrets held and revealed by plants and inspired by the wild things around her, Ellen has a curious mind and loves to exchange knowledge with all who share in the dream of symbiocene. 

SUPPORTING DIRECTOR AND GUEST FACILITATOR

Melissa is a grower, teacher, community herbalist and trainee medical herbalist with Betonica. She has been a lover of plants her whole life and, following several years working in agroecological research, she trained in practical horticulture. Since then, as well as developing her work with herbs, she has been growing vegetables as part of School Farm, as well as teaching practical horticulture and working in community composting.

She recognises plants as the facilitators of life on Earth through creating the air we breathe and the food we eat, and works towards empowering people to create their own connections and confidence in working with plants themselves.