Speaker Meeting : David Wilson :
Mon, Sep 4th 2017 at 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
David Wilson is the farm manager at Highgrove, the Gloucestershire estate of Prince Charles. This is a joint meeting with Stonehouse Rotary Club.
David Wilson is farm manager of the Duchy Home Farm at Highgrove and had initially been trained in conventional methods of agriculture. In 1985 Prince Charles chose him to run the DUCHY HOME FARM and so, David Wilson accompanied and shaped the process of converting to sustainable, organic agriculture.
In the wake of this collaboration he became a close confidant to Prince Charles in terms of his ecological endeavours.
„I was very lucky to come to this job, and then having the opportunity to try a system of farming that was very different. The Prince of Wales had a vision, and he also had a real unease about intensive farming systems, and it just gave us all an opportunity to learn together. Which we‘ve done and we certainly continue learning, that‘s for sure.“
„We have a very spoilt Western society, where cosmetic perfection is everything, which means that we have a real problem.“
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