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Biography of Contributors
Africa. It was this engagement with the on-the-ground realities of those affected by ongoing
political instability, social division and shattered infrastructure that frst drew her to agroecology.
Now as assistant professor in Stabilisation Agriculture at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and
Resilience, George applies a regenerative lens to food and farming systems in disaster-prone and
confict-affected environments, with a specifc interest in the transformation of social–ecological
relationships rooted in social farming. This work explores the extent to which small ‘non-movements’ employ non-threatening, practice-based co-learning processes not only to shape physical
landscapes, but to negotiate social change by re-forging networks based on principles of reciprocity
and trust.
Gudrun Mende
Gudrun Mende (Dipl.Chem) has been working at KWALIS since 1997. She was introduced by
Jürgen Strube to the measuring technology of fuorescence excitation spectroscopy (FES) and is
involved with the dependencies of the measurement methodology, the scientifc documentation and
the development of the evaluation principle of FES (https://www.kwalis.de/).
Sabrina Menestrina
Sabrina was born in 1962 in Italy, where she lives and works as a veterinary doctor for the Italian
healthcare service in central Friuli region. Among her various roles, she is responsible for health in
beekeeping. In 2013, she founded, with Enrico Zagnoli, the biodynamic beekeeping section within
the Italian Biodynamic Agriculture Association, for which she was General Secretary from 2011
to 2017. Since 2014, she has served on the board of the Italian Association of Anthroposophical
Medicine, of which she is the Vice President. With friends and beekeepers, in 2016 she founded
the Italian association ApiSophia to promote bees. In 2017, she co-founded the Anthroposophical
Veterinary Medicine section within the Medical Section of the Goetheanum, in Dornach,
Switzerland, of which she is the International Coordinator. She is also a board member of the new
Biodynamic Federation Demeter International in Germany. She has presented many conferences on
the health and dignity of bees and other animals.
Joseph Milne
Dr Joseph Milne is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kent where he taught on the MA
course in Mysticism and Religious Experience until his retirement in 2013. His interests range from
Platonism to medieval mysticism and theology, and in particular the transformations of metaphysical thought that have occurred at different times in Western civilisation. His current research is into
the classical and medieval understanding of Natural Law. He is Editor of Land & Liberty, the journal of the Henry George Foundation, and also a member of the team editing The Annotated Works of
Henry George. He is the author of the Temenos Academy Papers: The Ground of Being: Foundations
of Christian Mysticism (2004); Metaphysics and the Cosmic Order (2008); The Mystical Cosmos
(2013); and The Lost Vision of Nature (2018). He is contributor of chapters to Mystical Theology and
Continental Philosophy (ed. D. Lewin et al.; Routledge, 2017); to Peacefulness: Being Peace and
Making Peace (eds. D. Cadman and S. Gill; Spirit of Humanity Press, 2017); and to The Harmony
Debates: Exploring a Practical Philosophy for a Sustainable Future (edited by Nicholas Campion,
University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2020). He is a Trustee of The Eckhart Society and a Fellow
of the Temenos Academy.
Ed Moerman
Ed Moerman was born the oldest of two children into a Dutch greenhouse grower’s family. As a
teenager, helping out his father with cucumber crops infuenced his career plans and he changed his
studies from electrical engineering to horticulture. After graduation (with a BSc in Horticulture),
Ed started advising greenhouse growers (1980–1987) as a government consultant, and in 1988, he
moved to Koppert Biological Systems and worked in various positions, including advising growers
Biography of Contributors
Africa. It was this engagement with the on-the-ground realities of those affected by ongoing
political instability, social division and shattered infrastructure that frst drew her to agroecology.
Now as assistant professor in Stabilisation Agriculture at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and
Resilience, George applies a regenerative lens to food and farming systems in disaster-prone and
confict-affected environments, with a specifc interest in the transformation of social–ecological
relationships rooted in social farming. This work explores the extent to which small ‘non-movements’ employ non-threatening, practice-based co-learning processes not only to shape physical
landscapes, but to negotiate social change by re-forging networks based on principles of reciprocity
and trust.
Gudrun Mende
Gudrun Mende (Dipl.Chem) has been working at KWALIS since 1997. She was introduced by
Jürgen Strube to the measuring technology of fuorescence excitation spectroscopy (FES) and is
involved with the dependencies of the measurement methodology, the scientifc documentation and
the development of the evaluation principle of FES (https://www.kwalis.de/).
Sabrina Menestrina
Sabrina was born in 1962 in Italy, where she lives and works as a veterinary doctor for the Italian
healthcare service in central Friuli region. Among her various roles, she is responsible for health in
beekeeping. In 2013, she founded, with Enrico Zagnoli, the biodynamic beekeeping section within
the Italian Biodynamic Agriculture Association, for which she was General Secretary from 2011
to 2017. Since 2014, she has served on the board of the Italian Association of Anthroposophical
Medicine, of which she is the Vice President. With friends and beekeepers, in 2016 she founded
the Italian association ApiSophia to promote bees. In 2017, she co-founded the Anthroposophical
Veterinary Medicine section within the Medical Section of the Goetheanum, in Dornach,
Switzerland, of which she is the International Coordinator. She is also a board member of the new
Biodynamic Federation Demeter International in Germany. She has presented many conferences on
the health and dignity of bees and other animals.
Joseph Milne
Dr Joseph Milne is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kent where he taught on the MA
course in Mysticism and Religious Experience until his retirement in 2013. His interests range from
Platonism to medieval mysticism and theology, and in particular the transformations of metaphysical thought that have occurred at different times in Western civilisation. His current research is into
the classical and medieval understanding of Natural Law. He is Editor of Land & Liberty, the journal of the Henry George Foundation, and also a member of the team editing The Annotated Works of
Henry George. He is the author of the Temenos Academy Papers: The Ground of Being: Foundations
of Christian Mysticism (2004); Metaphysics and the Cosmic Order (2008); The Mystical Cosmos
(2013); and The Lost Vision of Nature (2018). He is contributor of chapters to Mystical Theology and
Continental Philosophy (ed. D. Lewin et al.; Routledge, 2017); to Peacefulness: Being Peace and
Making Peace (eds. D. Cadman and S. Gill; Spirit of Humanity Press, 2017); and to The Harmony
Debates: Exploring a Practical Philosophy for a Sustainable Future (edited by Nicholas Campion,
University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2020). He is a Trustee of The Eckhart Society and a Fellow
of the Temenos Academy.
Ed Moerman
Ed Moerman was born the oldest of two children into a Dutch greenhouse grower’s family. As a
teenager, helping out his father with cucumber crops infuenced his career plans and he changed his
studies from electrical engineering to horticulture. After graduation (with a BSc in Horticulture),
Ed started advising greenhouse growers (1980–1987) as a government consultant, and in 1988, he
moved to Koppert Biological Systems and worked in various positions, including advising growers