
Team
We are a growing team of people passionate about ecological transformation, contributing to OmVed alongside other work.
Here is a bit about our role at OmVed and how nature influences the work we do:

Founder and Facilitator
Karen Leason
"As a child, we spent all our summers living in the woods without electricity and other amenities and were guided by the night sky during evening walks. My early fascination with the stars became more earth bound when I learned that everything is made of stardust and the magic of photosynthesis creates life on earth. The revolution of the seasons, change and the elements connects me to everything."

Head of Urban Growing
Vicky Chown
"I find it tricky to separate myself from nature, especially in my role as gardener. So it's safe to say nature guides every aspect of what I do."

Assistant Food Grower &
Seed Saving Network Coordinator
Tej Rawal
"As a gardener, I’m privileged to be a degree closer to what we call nature than many others are afforded. It’s a proximity that’s taught me humility in beginning to accept how interwoven the natural world is in every part of our lives."

Assistant Food Grower &
Seed Saving Network Coordinator
Randa Toko
"In the garden I get to tend to the land by calling in my senses to work creatively with and in responses to the entangled relationships between plants, fungal and soil creatures and humans. This intuitive and embodied practice expands my sense of being."

Head of the Creative & Regenerative Kitchen
Josephine Marchandise
"The natural world is a place where we all belong, although disconnected. My role is for everyone to find a wilder way of life through food, from soil to plate. Fascinated by vegetables, soil, and plants. I am working symbiotically with the environment to create nutritious and healing food. Uniting and nurturing us all."

Ecologist
Kiran Lee
"I have a fundamental curiosity for nature. Each species represents millions of years of evolution shaped by ecological interactions. Understanding and preserving this natural history makes me feel alive."
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Curator & Creative Programmer
Sol Polo
"Curating comes from the latin curare, meaning taking care of. In the context of our permaculture garden, food project and events space, my role is to enable internal and external ideas to be cultivated and nurtured to grow into a public programme that reflects our commitment to regeneration, creative exploration and diversity".

Education Project Manager
Sonia Rego
“I was late in coming to feel at home in the natural world, but I am enthusiastically here now. My work is guided by the belief that everyone in a city, of all ages, deserves to feel the joy of planting a seed, the awe of tasting a vegetable they grew, the peace of leaning against a willow, and the mindfulness of slow walking and observing moss”.

Photographer & Film Director
Will Hearle
"I took up photography as a way to deal with anxiety. If I ever felt an unfounded urge that I should be doing something I would take my camera and go for a walk. I am drawn to the ways in which nature quietly emerges in the urban sphere. I am taken by nature's complexity, from the granular level to expansive vistas. I try to incorporate that layering of information into my work, it makes an image feel rich and organic."

OmVed Gardens & Where the Leaves Fall
Social Media Editor & Producer
Joanna Ayre
“My role is to bring OmVed’s ideas, creativity and beauty to audiences beyond the garden, and to inspire people everywhere to deepen their own connection with nature. I am fascinated by nature’s complexity, there’s so much to learn. Spending time in the natural world is how I switch off from the digital world.”

Where the Leaves Fall Co-Editor
Luciane Pisani
“My understanding of my relationship with nature is an ongoing and developing process. What I’ve been learning through the work with OmVed and Where the Leaves Fall is the magnitude of forest knowledge - the experience of articulating knowledge from different perspectives such as Indigenous, academic, scientific, artistic, traditional etc. This opens the way for new questions to be asked, helping us to relocate ourselves back into the natural world.”

Where the Leaves Fall Co-Editor
David Reeve
“We are nature. It’s the question of how we relocate ourselves in the natural world that guides the editorial direction of Where the Leaves Fall.”

Where the Leaves Fall
Marketing & Communications
Laura Gheorghita
“Nature never fails to show us how interconnected we all are. It’s this kind of simple yet nourishing coexistence that inspires me to nurture imaginative partnerships for Where the Leaves Fall. I’m so grateful to be involved in projects spreading seeds of change, where nature is carefully and actively listened to."

Where the Leaves Fall
Deputy Editor
Niellah Arboine
"Finding paths to reconnect ourselves to nature is not only one of life’s greatest joys, but it’s fundamental in understanding our humanity and building a more just and caring world. I hope my role at Where the Leaves Fall helps to facilitate this in some way for people who engage with the words and art we share from across the globe."

Where the Leaves Fall
Sunday Newsletter Editor
Madeleine Bazil
"In my work - writing The Rhizome, as well as my film and photography work - nature is an organising principle. I’m passionate about intersections between the personal, socio-political, and ecological - and how these affect the rights and wellbeing of both people and planet. Nature is also what keeps me grounded."

Where the Leaves Fall
Weekly Round Up Editor
Ameena Rojee
Nature is an influence in all areas of my life, from my day-to-day living to my work as a photographer and writer. I write the weekly round up for Where the Leaves Fall where I talk about topics surrounding nature as a whole, sharing research, current news, and personal stories. I'm always learning along the way and it's a great joy to connect with readers on their own ways of living and being with nature.
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