Caroline Aitken

Caroline Aitken originally studied art and design, specialising in glassmaking, and still works as an illustrator. She cooks and teaches for Patrick Whitefield's Permaculture Design courses, where she realised the need for practical guidance on how to integrate these new foods into familiar and appealing meals and collaborated with Martin Crawford on Food from Your Forest Garden . Caroline travelled for three years in Europe and Morocco in a bus powered by vegetable oil, then settled on a...See more

Caroline Aitken originally studied art and design, specialising in glassmaking, and still works as an illustrator. She cooks and teaches for Patrick Whitefield's Permaculture Design courses, where she realised the need for practical guidance on how to integrate these new foods into familiar and appealing meals and collaborated with Martin Crawford on Food from Your Forest Garden . Caroline travelled for three years in Europe and Morocco in a bus powered by vegetable oil, then settled on a smallholding in Devon where she grew vegetables and tended livestock while also studying horticulture with the RHS. She also hopes to create a community vegetable garden for the benefit of school groups, the disabled and people with Alzheimer's - aiming to be as self-sufficient, low-impact and resilient as possible, while also reaching out to the local community. See less