Deborah Barker, FRSA works at the intersection of fashion, textiles and regenerative agriculture and is co-founder and director of the South East England Fibreshed.

She works at the intersection of visual art, craft, fashion, textiles and agriculture. From her studio Field & Folk in rural East Sussex she collaborates with farmers and independent designers.

For Pasture for Life she developed and is managing the Southeast England farmer mentoring and events program funded by FiPL. Current projects with Southeast England Fibreshed include running experiential farm visits for fashion students and tutors, working with designers and farmers in the Southeast of England to explore the potential of regional wool, co-creating the Farming Fashion Toolkit to encourage collaboration between farmers and designers and is leading a national project funded by DIRT to understand the potential for increasing the availability and quality of biodynamic wool. She was co-creator of the Farming Fashion, a 3 part podcast series exploring regenerative fibres and fashion hosted by Farmerama Radio.

Harrier Miller is a knitwear designer for luxury knitwear brands, developed LAM with conservation farmer William Lawrence and is co-founder of the South East England Fibreshed. Their aim is to create a regenerative, regional food, fibre and fashion system. Based within the North Downs of Kent, the project seeks to combine farming and fashion to produce, design and develop small scale, climate beneficial knitwear collections for luxury brands. Their mission is to create a combined farming and fashion system that will regenerate the soil, increasing biodiversity and give back more than the system takes, transforming farming and fashion’s relationship with nature, improving the future for the environment, livestock and consumers.

Gala Bailey Barker is a Director of Plaw Hatch farm, a mixed 500 acre biodynamic, community-owned farm run as a business and co-founder of the South East England Fibreshed. A first-generation farmer she studied for a degree in archaeology and went on to work as an apprentice at Plaw Hatch. She has now worked at the farm for 9 years as farmer and shepherd and been involved in most aspects of the farm. Throughout this time she has focused on improving and increasing the flock from 30 to 65 developing a successful wool business alongside producing lamb for the farm shop. The organically processed knitting yarn, blankets and sheepskins are sold through the farm shop and online and she has recently collaborated with an independent designer who will be working with Plaw Hatch wool to create knitwear for a regenerative clothing collection.

Tilly Kaye is a designer and design consultant with a primary focus on responsible environmental and social practices. She runs Zero to Product, a design studio offering design and development services to the fashion industry and Fine Tilth, a clothing brand which seeks to imagine a broader awareness of the relationship between fashion and farming. She works for SEE Fibreshed on a freelance basis and is currently working on the biodynamic wool project.

Initially working in costume for film and as a seamstress/designer in bespoke womenswear, the search for solutions to the intrinsic issues in the textile industry then led Isabella to natural dye, social enterprise and most recently, regenerative farming. Isabella works across disparate parts of the industry to break the illusion that we in fashion and textiles exist in an isolated sector; recognising that we are interdependent and that we therefore need integrated, holistic thinking to find equitable and balanced systems. Isabella works for SEE Fibreshed on a freelance basis and is currently working on the wool mapping project.

Lynnie Hutchinson and her husband Ian produce organic beef and lamb for direct sales to customers and grow arable crops to support these enterprises on Brickpits Organic Farm. They have a Hereford beef suckler herd with two calvings a year and lamb 150 ewes outside in April, a mix of Suffolk, Texel, and Lleyns. The farm has some permanent pasture and some arable land in rotation. Lynnie is growing weld on her land for the SEE Fibreshed.