Midlands Fieldworkers

The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens offers Fieldworker support to community groups. Fieldworkers provide expertise and advice to projects developing community farms and gardens. If you would like to utilise one of our Fieldworkers, please contact the Midlands office in the first instance. Our telephone number is 024 7667 5211, alternatively you can email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Our Midlands based Fieldworkers are:

Lynn Taylor
Lynn supported two residents' groups to set up community gardens in Nottingham. This included initial consultation through to employing staff. She supports around 12 community growing organisations in Nottingham through the Garden to Plate network, which she co-ordinates. Her background includes: voluntary sector, community development and social economy. She supports schools in setting up growing areas and is a long standing allotment gardener.

Jill Hogan
Jill is a part time self-employed owner of a small garden design, landscaping and garden maintenance business. She also works for a national charity; for some years as a regional development worker and now as a quality officer.  Jill’s experience includes: gardening for mental health; managing mental health services; quality assurance systems in the voluntary sector; organisational development.  She is a trained tutor, teaching practical gardening, theory of horticulture and garden design in Adult Education.

Ken Whittaker
Ken is retired after having worked for 10 years at Nechalls Green Garden Centre teaching people living with disabilities. He has been involved with organising horticultural events and is a trained horticulturalist. He used horticulture as a therapeutic tool to teach and retrain special needs adults and is also an NVQ Assessor and a trained teacher.

Dekk Brain
Dekk is a self-employed landscape gardener. He has worked for 15 years in the landscape and farming industries. He has experience of animal husbandry, allotment gardening and operating farm machinery. He has an eclectic range of other experience including; butchery, hedge laying, blacksmithing and hay baling.

Mike Gee
Mike manages Woodgate Valley Urban Farm in Birmingham. Previously he worked as a Human Resources Manager for a Local Authority. He has extensive experience on how to run a charity as well as working with ex-offenders and the Probation Service. He has delivered courses on animal husbandry with school and is a trained horticulturalist.