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Julie Smith
Former Gardening and Training Coordinator for the Capital Growth. Julie Smith has now left Sustain.

Julie is the Garden and Training Coordinator for Capital Growth, London's food growing network. She manages the Capital Growth show garden in Regent’s Park, whose purpose is to inspire people to grow food and to demonstrate organic growing practices.

She also runs food growing and community garden management training and writes gardening tips for the Capital Growth website and The Jellied Eel magazine. Previously Julie worked with the Ethical Eats project, tackling food waste in the catering sector.

Julie studied ecophysiology and animal behaviour at Strasbourg University in France, before completing a Masters in environmental management from the Eco-Conseil Institute. Julie is part of The Royal Park Guild and a Director of the London Freedom Seed Bank.

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