She arrived at flower farming after working across the horticultural sector in ornamental gardens, market gardens and in floral design. Now in her fifth season of commercial growing, she's more motivated than ever about growing joyful, healing flowers and herbs that don't cost the earth (literally!)

Amy is also a movement artist, and draws on various embodiment practices to deepen her reality of 'regenerative' farming. You can read more about her approach to embodiment here, and take a look on the workshop page for opportunities to join in.

Meet Amy, Head Grower at Remedy Fields.

Other focuses beyond flower & herb growing:

Embodiment

Having trained as a professional contemporary dancer, Amy now uses that knowledge in her life as a movement artist, trusting that our bodies are a deep source of wisdom and connection.

Her movement practice currently investigates how embodiment can help create a more expansive and integrated view of regenerative [growing/life-sustaining] principles. Central to this research are ideas and practices around mutual aid, rest, interoception and conversation with land.

In 2024, she has been undertaking residencies and hosting movement research sessions on the farm. Keep an eye on workshops page/instagram if you're interested in joining.

Foraging

Amy was brought up foraging, but has been practising and studying it more intensely for at least a decade. She originally created The Remedy Workshop in 2019 as a way to share her foraged herbal remedies. Five years later, and after studying Herbology at RBGE with a focus on wild Scottish herbs, she decided to 'compost' this side of the business and now focusses on facilitating live co-learning experiences, mainly through foraging & folk medicine workshops. She also hopes to grow herbs for the commercial market, starting in 2025.

Values & Ethos

Remedy Fields uses growing techniques informed by the worlds of agroecology/organic/permaculture/biodynamic/no-dig/regenerative agriculture. In short, these are methods that preserve soil structure and health, don’t use chemicals like pesticides & herbicides, and avoid heavy use of amendments. The goal is to support the ecosystem of which the farm is part of, and to make it a more diverse and hospitable home for all the beings that live there.
These principles do not end with the horticultural activities. Remedy Fields aims to draw on regenerative principles to create a truly sustainable business model, for all participants. The cycles of inner and outer seasons inform rhythms of rest, and through meditating on her embodied experience, Amy uses farmwork as the device for which her body partners with, and communicates with the land. She finds land-based work and somatic practices to be a powerful combination for engaging in personal and inter-personal/species decolonisation, and is grateful for the many workshops, reading groups and sapces that keep her accountable to this process.
As a project firmly rooted in restoring relationship to landscape, Remedy Fields stands firmly against the colonisation of Palestine; indeed of all lands and peoples everywhere. In it’s capacity as a creative space, Remedy Fields endorses the call from PACBI to boycott Israel's cultural sector that is complicit in genocide and apartheid.
Amy is also a member of the Land Worker’s Alliance, a part of La Via Campesina, the international peasant’s movement for Food Sovereignty. Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their food and agriculture systems. This is pertinent to Scotland, which has one of the most unequal land ownership patterns in the world. Particularly through her foraging workshops and work at The Wash House Garden, Amy aims to empower communities with the confidence access to wild foods/herbs and the skills to cultivate their own.

“[Through regeneration] we become full participants in the process of maximising life’s creativity… where our actions are constantly growing, rather than extracting life" Naomi Klein, 'This Changes Everything' (2014)

Supportive "Mycorrhizal" Network

Just as mycorrhizal networks connect millions of living organisms under the soil surface, providing the transfer of messages, nutrients, (and more than we can comprehend!), so Remedy Field is nurtured by a web of organisations and individuals. It is through community and solidarity that this project stays alive and well, and in recognition of this, I have featured some of those in the sections below: