personnel

Dave Darby is our director. He visited lots of communities before moving to Redfield in 1996. When working on development projects in Romania, he realised that they saw Western countries as role models, so he decided to try and bring about change in the UK instead, and set up LILI in 2001. He now lives in London.

Taryn Field is a Redfield member who used to look after courses, and has now moved to the WWOOF team to be host secretary. She likes roller derby, tattoos, and talks to herself all the time when she's in the office (how can we stop her doing that?). Here she is watering her sweetcorn.

Peter Richardson has been a journalist, lecturer, carpenter, IT consultant and co-ordinator of the Milton Keynes Green Party. Peter built our online shop, and now looks after our computer systems. Also runs Ethical Internet. He lives in Stroud.

Scarlett Penn is WWOOF contract manager. She has a science background, and we nicked her from the local council – she used to be our recycling officer. Here she is shovelling poo. She used to live at Redfield, and now lives at Windyridge Community in Sussex, when she's not travelling in her van.

Christiane Schmidt is the book-keeper for WWOOF. She and her husband Chris met whilst WWOOFing in New Zealand 19 years ago. They WWOOFed for Redfield in the early 90s, now have two children and have been happily living here ever since - a WWOOF love story.

Elaine Koster is a member of the WWOOF team, and is also running our publishing department. She is a tai chi instructor, including dangerous stuff with swords. She's our flexible friend. She lives in Buckinghamshire.

Sherry Kramer is our book-keeper, and Taryn's mum. She's had a career in financial management of large organisations, and now she's helping us. She's a wizard with figures, er, and here she is dressed as a witch. She lives in Aylesbury.

James Dennis is a Redfield member who has been recruited into the WWOOF team to work on promotion. He's a nature-guy, and you can't beat him at flora and fauna identification. He helped start Transition Winslow and he's got a scythe hanging over his bed, as you do.

Sam Ryan is an Aussie who started volunteering with us a few years ago, had a job with us in 2011, then spent 2012 travelling overland back to Australia to set up LILI over there. Watch this space. Not the most flattering photo, but hey, it's the one he gave us.

Zoe Page is a Redfield member, with her partner Ian and their children. She's in the office 2 days a week, dealing with course bookings, online course and book sales and handling tricky emails. Likes sweat lodges and is part of Transition Winslow.

Emma Winfield came on a LILI course at Redfield in 2002. She has organised our stand at Grand Designs Live for the past 3 years, and she's now developing our new website, e-marketing and the Low-impact Network. She runs Real Refurbs in Bristol.