Myles Bremner

Myles Bremner is the Chief Executive of Garden Organic (the UK’s leading organic growing charity), Chair of Capital Growth working party (which is campaigning for 2012 new community food growing spaces for London by the end of 2012 Olympics) and Trustee of Sustain (the UK alliance for better food and farming). He is determined that food skills – growing, cooking and eating – are firmly on the learning agenda.

Keith Colls

Keith Colls is President of the Organic Growers Society (COGS). He has been heavily involved in COGS as a Committee member since the late 1990s and is currently in his sixth year as President. Keith has been gardening all his life. Raised on a wheat and cattle farm he has a strong connection to the land and is particularly interested in ways cities' food supplies may be produced from within their own boundaries and adjacent regions. Keith studied horticulture at the CIT Horticulture School at Weston following his retirement from a 35 year career as a meteorologist. He currently shares a plot with his grandson at the Cook community garden.

Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis is a landscape architect with a love of plants and people. These passions led to his study of a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture at the University of NSW, where his final-year thesis, ‘Green Cities of the Future: Ecology, Sustainability, Awareness and Responsibility for the Enrichment of Human Settlements,’ layed the foundations for his ongoing commitment to promoting organic food production, self-sustainability and water harvesting. He currently runs his own landscape business and is most well-known for his SBS gardening series, Costa’s Gardening Odyssey.

Phil Harris

Phil is Professor in Sustainable Agriculture and Head of International Development at the University of Coventry, UK.  He has extensive research and consultancy experience in organic and sustainable agriculture throughout the world.

Andre Leu

Andre Leu is Vice President of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM), Chair of the Organic Federation of Australia (OFA) and an organic farmer, growing tropical fruits in Daintree, Queensland. He has extensive experience in all areas of Organic Agriculture from growing, pest control, weed management, marketing, post harvest, transport, grower organizations, developing new crops and education in Australia and internationally.

Senator Christine Milne

Christine Milne is Greens Senator for Tasmania, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and a passionate gardener. She writes on her gardening blog, Sowing Seeds, that she “was brought up on a dairy farm in northern Tasmania and have always felt a strong connection to the land. These days, with my focus on climate change, I see gardens – home gardens, community gardens, school gardens – and eating local as a key part of growing a sustainable future”. Senator Milne’s blog is located at: http://sowingseedswithchristinemilne.wordpress.com/

Neil Savery

Neil Savery is Chief Planning Executive, ACT Planning and Land Authority and an Adjunct Professor in Urban Design with the University of Canberra. He is heavily involved in national work around planning system reform, improved administrative governance, climate change policy, collaborative planning and urban design practice, and spatial planning.