Soil Sisters

Food sovereignty for whole health

For over 15 years, Miche Fabre Lewin and Daphne Lambert have been flourishing as Soil Sisters. Their pioneering collaboration cultivates whole health with convivial food encounters which manifest within art galleries, food festivals, environmental gatherings, film screenings and cultural happenings. Soil Sisters’ ecological gastronomy is a feast for belly, mind, soul and soil. Their culinary artistry is a dedicated to whole health on the land, the kitchen and at the table and celebrates artisan traditions of preservation and the honouring of fresh, naturally grown, seasonal produce harvested from small local farms, gardens and foragings.

A selection of Soil Sisters projects include: Gastrodome at Hay Festival; Botanical Cocktails the original bespoke artisan cocktails for Abergavenny Food Festival; Intimate Taste of Life at Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival where Miche introduced the concept of Food Citizenship; Animate Earth rainbow canapés to amplify Stephan Harding’s film; Food of the Land artisan kitchen at Centre for Alternative Technology for Emergence Summit on Art and Sustainability. Miche’s chapter Revitalising ritual, everyday every mouthful appears in Daphne’s book Living Food, a feast for Soil and Soul.

In October 2022, Soil Sisters shared in response to George Monbiot’s book Regenesis and his disturbing vision of a new future for food and farming. They offer two interconnected contributions to add to those of others who have presented strong cases against Monbiot’s arguments. Firstly, the nutritional and human health implications of eating the laboratory-derived foods he advocates. Secondly, how mixed farming which combines growing crops and animal husbandry is integral to the genuine regenesis of both agriculture and human culture. Disregarded by the narrative of Regenesis are the life-affirming connections between the health of humans, soil and food, and the vital interdependence between small-scale farming and regenerative cultures.