The SEER Centre Trustees.
The Trustees bring together a wide range of experience in agricultural, horticultural and environmental issues. Brief resumes of the trustees follow.
Cameron Thomson,
Co-founder. |
- Graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, 1968, with exhibitions in Dundee, London and New York.
- Teacher of Art for six years.
- In 1978, dedicated himself to personal studies of man's relationship to the environment, ecology and the practice of self-sufficiency. Since 1983 he and Moira have demonstrated rural regeneration based on indigenous tradition, good husbandry and modern understanding of population, organic agriculture, recycling and environmental management.
- Cameron Thomson's grasp of the connections between different subjects are key to his expertise in communication with a wide range of professionals and amateur enthusiasts.
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Moira Thomson,
Co-founder |
- Graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, 1983.
- An environmental artist focusing on rural issues.
- Since graduation in 1983, while raising five children and supporting John Hamaker's Global Soil Remineralisation Campaign, she has promoted and practiced self-sufficient rural culture to achieve environmental and human sustainability in an age of pollution and climate change.
- Moira Thomson's grasp of the connections between different subjects are key to her expertise in communication with a wide range of professionals and amateur enthusiasts.
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| Councillor Alan Grant |
- An elected member of Perth Council, very active in environmental and social regeneration. He is our most recently appointed Trustee.
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| Dr Sheila Gibson |
Dr sheila Gibson is a practitioner of natural medicine and a member of the McCarrison Society. |
| Peter Christopher |
- Graduate of Dundee University and Napier College with, respectively, BSc Hons. Botany and HND Applied Biology
- A long time exponent of the organic approach to gardening and food production and practitioner in naturalistic and wildlife-sensitive planting schemes, Peter is an environmental campaigner who has a long standing involvement with schools and communities through the creation of gardens
- Since 1984 has worked as a professional gardener and is now Head Gardener with National Trust for Scotland at Hill of Tarvit.
- Member of Institute of Horticulture and Professional Gardeners Guild
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Structure of Trust
The trust has been set up with charitable status with the main objectives of:
- education in soil regeneration as affected by climatic change;
- to encourage soil regeneration through the use of rock dusts and composts;
- to promote or facilitate research into environmental regeneration;
- promotion of local and centralised composting as a waste minimisation and re-cycling initiative;
- promotion of soil management to regenerate rural and other areas of poor soil quality;
- promotion of' soil remineralisation;
- foster the development of sustainable organic food production.
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