Matt Dunwell

Biographical Information
"Matt Dunwell has owned and run Ragmans Lane Farm since 1990. He has hosted numerous courses over the last eighteen years for teachers such as Bill Mollison, Mike Feingold, Chris Evans, Andy Langford and Jude and Michel Fanton from Australia, Starhawk and Penny Livingston- Stark from LA as well as the team currently teaching at Ragmans. He has experience through his management of Ragmans, in staff and volunteer managment, livestock (cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry), vegetables, mushroom production and apple juicing. Matt also founded Worldly Goods, a book distribution company based in Bristol, which he co owns with Peter Andrews. He was on the steering group of Transition Forest of Dean for a year, and has worked as a consultant for the Foundation of Local Food Initiatives. He co authored the first Local Food Directory in 1997. He has been a Trustee of the Tudor Trust for 25 years. (Relocalisation of local food systems - Lead Tutor, and Organic Mushroom Production)."