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Welcome to Slow Life Good Life, the online club to keep you motivated, well-fed and healthy and help you become more self-reliant during this unsettling time, with advice from top chefs, farmers, makers, creatives and wellbeing experts. Inspired by current events, this club will be your go-to virtual community while we are all in isolation, and a friend to navigate through the turbulent times ahead, with grounding, practical and inspiring advice for individuals families across the nation. And we’ll have a whole lot of fun too. Sign up today and come on in!
A huge bunch of talented friends have got together to bring you brilliant content that will
save you money and give you loads of new things to try out
during the weeks and months ahead.
You’ll get to sit at Gill Meller’s kitchen table, wander around Trill Farm with Kate Norman and Ashley Wheeler, stop by at the Old Dairy Kitchen for breakfast with Chris Onions and Andy Tyrrell, stand by Naomi Devlin’s workbench as she cooks up gluten free delights, creatively document your experience with photographer Holly Treloar, meditate with Insight Timer app meditation teacher Joey Hulin, become a barbecue hero with James Beard Award Winning food writer and chef James Whetlor, learn songwriting with Neil Treloar, former manager of Catfish and the Bottlemen, learn how to preserve with Pam Corbin aka ‘Pam the Jam’, whip up a store cupboard feast with former Borough Market demo chef Luke Vandore-Mackay, learn calming tools for this anxious time from bestselling self-help author Beth Kempton and more.
We have ALL this for you PLUS access to a vibrant virtual community of others who are also self-isolating or socially distancing, homeschooling or stuck indoors, with a weekly live broadcast every Friday night during lockdown, starting with Steven Lamb leading a cook up live from his cottage kitchen in the South West of England. There will be new expert every week, and everyone will be videoing on iphones, uploading from where they are isolating, so you will get to see inside their real lives.
The reality of the current situation is that many people in rural areas have seen their incomes drop off a cliff in a matter of days, and their back up income of Airbnb is gone for now too. If the local businesses like cafes don’t make it through, the impact on tourism will drag on and our communities will be decimated. This paid membership at just £5 +VAT a month will be a lifeline for all these families and the wider community, as ALL proceeds will go back into supporting local families and rural businesses hit by the crisis.
Join now, and then tell all your friends so you can follow this path together!
This is an unprecedented opportunity for us to support each other while helping ourselves through this. Join now via the REGISTER button at the top of the page. It’s just £5 + VAT per month and let us share the wisdom of the land to help keep you healthy, well fed and sane during this turbulent time, and inspire innovation and entrepreneurship when the time comes to re-enter society. You can cancel anytime and hey, there’s no barista coffee to be bought this month anyway…
Here’s Beth Kempton, one of our co-founders, with a few words on why this is so important right now:
Joining costs just £5 (+VAT where applicable) per month, and you will save way more than that with the things you learn each month. There is no contract and you can end your membership at any time.
Meet some of the Co-Founders and Founding Members of Slow Life Good Life here, all of whom live, love or hail from Devon and Dorset in the South West of England:
Co-Founder Steven Lamb’s food career began nearly 20 years ago when he joined Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage team, regularly appearing in the tv series and being instrumental in establishing the internationally acclaimed cookery school on the Devon / Dorset border. He is an artisan food expert, teacher, presenter, culinary consultant and award-winning author of two River Cottage Handbooks: Curing & Smoking / Cheese & Dairy. He lives him Dorset with his wife and three daughters.
Co-Founder Beth Kempton has spent the last decade helping tens of thousands of people find creative ways to live well doing what they love, through powerful online courses and workshops as founder of Do What You Love. Her book ‘Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life’ has been recommended by TIME Magazine, British Vogue, The Telegraph, and Psychologies Magazine, described as ‘a truly transformational read’ by Sunday Times Style, translated into 24 languages and optioned for television. Mother of two adorable girls, she lives a slow-ish life in Devon. She has just finished writing a book about the times we are in called We Are in This Together: Finding hope and opportunity in the depths of adversity. It will be published on May 14 in ebook and audiobook.
Gill Meller is a chef, award-winning author and food writer. His cookery books include Gather, Time, and the upcoming Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower. Based in Lyme Regis, Dorset, Gill’s cooking is a reflection of his surroundings, he takes inspiration from the landscape, the seasons and the community of farmers, growers and fisherman that live and work around him.
Anna Wardrop is a garden designer, who splits her time between urban life and the country idyll. Her recent projects have included commercial and community spaces as well as residential gardens and roof terraces. She takes an immersive approach to garden design, tailoring the process to suit each individual client and site.
Neil Treloar’s ancestry runs deep into the South West, but his music industry career has taken him all over the world. Neil was formerly Partner/Artist Manager at ATC Management (Catfish and The Bottlemen, Brooke Bentham, BANFI, Brother & Bones, Half Moon Run, VALERAS). Neil’s clients include Ivor Novello winning producer/writer Mark Hill – (Craig David, Artful Dodger, Original Dodger) and writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist R.D. Thomas (Ben Howard, Blaze Of Feather, Brother & Bones) Neil is a Visiting Fellow at Solent University and a regular guest speaker at the University of Creative Arts, Brighton Institute of Modern Music and The Academy Of Contemporary Music.
Naomi Devlin is a food writer and nutritionist. She grew up in rural Dorset commune, home educated, growing veg, fermenting pickles and sourdough bread and eating with the seasons. Naomi’s bestselling first book, River Cottage Gluten Free – was based on her popular cookery courses which celebrate great free-from food made from scratch. Her second book, Food for a Happy Gut takes the foodie approach to gut health with recipes that focus on nutritious additions to your diet rather than cutting lots of things out. Whatever she’s cooking, the focus is satisfying, colourful food, that feels comfortingly familiar, yet intriguingly different.
Ben Keene is a start up expert and Co-Founder of Rebel Book Club. Formerly Head of The Escape School, the educational arm of Escape the City, Ben has helped swathes of people switch careers and start businesses doing work that matters to them. He recently moved from the outskirts of London to a more rural life with his young family.
ALICE & HUGO SHUTTLEWORTH OF BOTTLE FARM
LUKE VANDORE-MACKAY of HIGH GRANGE
Luke Vandore-Mackay has been feeding people for almost 20 years – as a restaurant chef, a travelling cook, as founder of Brompton Food Market and The Hour Glass in London and until recently running the Borough Market Demo Kitchen. He is also a food writer, teacher and presenter. Along with his wife Sara they took the plunge to move the family from SW London to East Devon in September. High Grange will be a food hub with yoga, pigs, chickens, home grown fruit and veg and fire pits!
ANDY TYRRELL of KIT AND KEE
After several years as Head Chef at River Cottage, Andy Tyrrell is now the head chef at Kit and Kee Catering and is a particularly brilliant bread maker.
Barbara is a psychotherapist, a mindfulness teacher, a life coach and a yoga teacher. She has an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Metanoia Institute in London and has a particular interest in family relationships especially parenting.
Joey is a retreat consultant, a writer and a meditation teacher on the world’s biggest meditation app Insight Timer.
Simone Randell is an energetic personal trainer who brings her Brazilian heritage to inspire fun workouts.
Holly Treloar is a photographer specialising in weddings and brand photography for small businesses. She is also a papercutting artist and mother of two teenagers.
Based in London but with a soft spot for the beautiful South West, Richard is our resident foraged herb mixologist and founder of innovative cocktail company Mix & Muddle.
Lucy Brazier is a freelance writer and tutor, specialising in food and lifestyle. She ghost writes for high profilers as well as under her own name. After many years as a talent agent, Lucy left London to join chef and writer, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his Devon based River Cottage team. She is currently writing the final in the renowned series of handbooks, River Cottage Christmas Handbook, which will be published in autumn 2021.
Zanna Hoskins is the founder of Champernhayes Flowers & Foliage, a cutting garden full of British flowers based in West Dorset.
Christiane is an artist who specialises in mindful making. She has an MA in Art and Environment from the University of Falmouth, Cornwall, and will be teaching slow stitching to Slow Life Good Life members.
Others include ELLI LAMB (Co-Founder), PAUL KEMPTON of Do What You Love (Co-Founder), and Founding Members HARRY & EMILY BOGLIONE of Haye Farm, CHRIS ONIONS of Kit and Kee and The Old Dairy Kitchen, PAM CORBIN aka ‘Pam the Jam’, KATE NORMAN & ASHLEY WHEELER of Trill Farm, DAN FITZPATRICK of Gilt & Flint Brewhouse, HUGO & ALICE SHUTTLEWORTH of Bottle Farm, SARA VANDORE-MACKAY of High Grange, MARK DIACONO of Otter Farm, MATT AUSTIN, JOEY HULIN, JAMES WHETLOR of Cabrito, KATHY KELLY of Dorset Forest School, MADDIE AUSTIN, RICHARD MAXTED of Mix and Muddle, and KARL CADDICK & ALICE TATHAM of The Lyme Bay Cafe.
And here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming up in the first couple of weeks:
