Friday 4th – Sunday 6th July 2025
Luke Hasell
Cooking Demo's
Join Luke Hasell, regenerative farmer and advocate for ethical food production, alongside Head Butcher Peter Clements for a nose-to-tail butchery demonstration. Together, they’ll showcase the art of whole-animal butchery, demonstrating how to use every part of the animal with skill and respect, reducing waste and honouring traditional techniques.
This hands-on session is perfect for those interested in field-to-fork cooking, regenerative farming, and mindful meat consumption. Watch, learn, and gain a deeper understanding of how ethical farming and whole-animal butchery go hand in hand.
Jen & Andy, Fernhill Farm
In Conversation
Talk
Jen Hunter and partner Andrew Wear have together created a unique opportunity to develop a rural family business as the ‘Fernhill Farm Experience’, offering 20000 visitors / annum the opportunity to visit and stay on an award winning eco-farm.
Regenerative practices include mob grazing FLERDS across the Mendip Hills in Somerset to build biodiversity naturally using livestock in nomadic rotations. Multi-purpose sheep genetics, Blade Shearing, specialist Fibre events, WOOL SCHOOLS, new-entrants, students, certification and regenerative verification all offer a vital part in growing, harvesting and supplying artisans and UK brand with British wool yarns, felts, fabrics, clothing and accessories.
Championing Body Confidence & Healthy Relationships with Food
Elle Mace is an expert in disordered eating, body image, body dysmorphia, and confidence, helping both adults and children develop a healthy relationship with food and their bodies. As a Positive Psychology Practitioner and founder of a successful support business, she empowers individuals to overcome food struggles and build resilience.
A sought-after keynote speaker, Elle leads international retreats, CPD training, and corporate well-being programs, while also hosting a popular podcast on self-confidence and positive mindset.
Join Elle at Fire In Your Soul to explore resilience, self-acceptance, and the power of a positive relationship with food and body.
As seen in: Women’s Health, BBC, Women & Home
Unshakeable Confidence: Empowerment for All
Elle Mace – Talk
Join Elle for an energising and interactive session designed to unlock your confidence and silence your inner critic.
Through dynamic storytelling, practical tools, and uplifting movement, you’ll learn how to step into your power, overcome imposter syndrome, and embrace your authentic self.
Perfect for singles, families, and anyone looking to boost their self-belief, this session is about breaking free from what holds you back—and doing it together. Come as you are, leave unstoppable!
Henry Rossiter, Belmont Estate Organic Farming
Regenerative Farming & Community Connection
.Henry Rossiter is the Business Development Director at Belmont, a regenerative organisation just outside of Bristol with a mission of environmental restoration and the reconnection of people with food, nature, and themselves. Belmont aims to inspire community connection, restore biodiversity, and tackle climate change through nature-based connection, rewilding, regenerative and organic agriculture, and outdoor shared experiences.
Henry’s career started in farming at the age of 6 which quickly ignited his passion for food and nature.
John Meadley
Farming in conservation with Nature
John Meadley
Trained in agriculture, John Meadley has been working with rural communities in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean – including in areas of conflict – since 1968. Becoming increasingly aware of the fragility of the planet and the absurdity of using much of the world’s grain to feed livestock, in 2009 he met two British farmers who were raising their cattle and sheep entirely on pasture. They decided to work together to encourage other farmers to do the same. From that conversation emerged the Pasture for Life movement.
In 2020 he worked with Mambud Samai in Sierra Leone to develop Farming on Crutches, where amputees – who lost an arm or a leg to a machete or a bullet in the civil war – can learn to farm organically.
Cooking Demos
Kyle Richardville, raised on a multi-generational farm, has dedicated his life to exploring the link between soil health, nutrition, and food. With a background in agricultural research from institutions like Purdue and Texas A&M, he now educates and consults farmers on regenerative agriculture to rebuild soil health for a sustainable future.
At Fire In Your Soul, Kyle will lead daily demonstrations, offering hands-on insights into the journey from soil to plate, covering topics like bread, flour, and soil infiltration, and showing how land health shapes the food we eat.
The Community Farm
The Community Farm
The Community Farm
The Community Farm is a not-for-profit, social enterprise overlooking Chew Valley Lake.
Their mission is to get more people enjoying the benefits of a better food system so that local people and nature nourish each other and flourish together.
At our heart, we are an organic farm aiming to grow community alongside food. Every year we welcome almost 2,000 people onto the land for events, courses, and volunteering.
We share the food we have grown with community and nature, as well as food we have sourced from a network of other farmers and producers who share our values, including more than 30 producers in the South West. Every week we deliver to hundreds of households throughout Bristol, Bath and The Chew Valley.
We welcome everyone in the local area to join our community, either through sharing time on the land with us or through enjoying the freshly-grown, organic produce we have grown with community and nature.