About our team
Alex Greaves - Founder
A Regenerative Horticulture Consultant, Nature Connection Facilitator & Mentor with a passion to create a more connected Culture - rooted in care for the planet, ourselves and each other. From this place, he strives to inspire and give people the tools to tend to themselves and the Earth in more regenerative ways in order that we collectively grow more abundance, joy, love and freedom for all.
Having studied both Biodynamic Horticulture and Permaculture, Alex is a co-founder of the Medicine garden at The Clophill Centre. A community garden venture growing, harvesting and processing a wide range of medicinal herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers. Helping educate & inspire people to grow their own food & medicine in sustainable ways. He has worked on small scale and large projects for clients looking to get the most from their land and co-create a landscape that works for all, he loves the process of matching the needs of the client, the land and the wider community. He is currently based at Old Westmill Farm, Ickleford, Hertfordshire creating a sustainable centre for Nature Inspiration.
Alex has a history of youth work, working in various different roles, in schools as a learning mentor hired in to help the school after an OFSTED fail, Care homes where he also helped train the staff in restorative practice, the fire service working with young arsonists, young offenders, and young people who had dropped out of school. This has given Alex a wealth of experience working with people from many different backgrounds & a wide range of professional agencies, Councils & Charities. These roles all involved continual training in communication, mental health issues & emotional wellbeing.
Inspired by the 8 Shields organisation and its work in Culture regeneration via the Art of Mentoring and Nature connection, he co-founded 'Wild Roots Nature Connection Community'. Running courses facilitating Nature Connection, including one alongside Jon Young, founder of 8 Shields. Alex also co-founded a weekly Nature Connection School for the local home education community covering a wide range of areas; bird language, tracking, survival skills, Native species identification & sensory development.
He has now worked for 20 years as a mentor in various roles, and has developed a great ability to listen deeply, and ask good questions that enable people to come to their own realisations and empower & inspire them to create a meaningful and nourishing life. Alex also is part of the Spirit of the Inca team as a Nature connection mentor both in the UK and Romania.
