Sara Summers and Frank Cammidge drop in this week to tell us about their experience of working with the Onions in the community panel. They chat about Watchet's problems, it's successes, and how the community panel is involved in decisions. Sar

Episode 1 - Getting To Know Us

Aug 10th, 2020 38m 50s

Everything is new this week as Spores Tor Thought team tries to figure out if they are now indeed podcasters or not. Jess Prendergrast, Sally Lowndes and Naomi Griffiths talk about why they have indeed started a podcast, who they are, who BIOHM

Episode 6 - Janitors Of The Natural World

Aug 5th, 2020 32m 10s

Sally is joined by Ehab Sayed and Samantha Jenkins this week to talk about the story and science behind why mycelium chooses to eat plastic, and the wide, exciting range of effects this could have in the world. 95% of plastics ever produced in

Episode 5 - Let's Recap

Jul 20th, 2020 35m 16s

In this episode, the onion team gets together to answer a few FAQ's about what's going on and how they got to where they are now, why they chose the infamous plastic-eating mushroom industry whilst hopefully not using terms that are overly conf

Episode 4 - Circular Economy with Dr David Greenfield

Jun 26th, 2020 44m 38s

The team meets Dr David Greenfield this week. David is a Chartered Waste Manager, Fellow of the CIWM, Fellow of the RSA, Associate Member of the ICE and Chartered Environmentalist and has over 20 years of leadership experience in public and pri

Episode 3 - The Site

Jun 18th, 2020 35m 58s

Hello! Jess, Sally, and Naomi talk us through about the problems they’ve faced with construction during the pandemic for the new site including the hunt for plaster, uneven floors, and piles of worms, yum. The team also talks about hiring staff

Episode 2 - Ehab Sayed & Harry Darkly

Jun 4th, 2020 23m 14s

Hello! This week Naomi and Sally are joined by industry partners, BIOHM. Founder and Director of Innovation, Ehad Sayed, and the Director of Operations, Harry Darkly. They tell us who they are, what BIOHM is, and why they were attracted by Watc