About
Natasha Rivett-Carnac
Curator, author, teacher, podcast host, and co-founder of Apple Barn
Natasha has spent 15 years working in the arts and climate sector. She is the host of one of the UK’s top-rated Apple arts podcasts, Arts & Ecology, and is the author of the forthcoming book Garden of Intention (Apple Barn Press, 2024).
Alongside leading teaching programmes, such as the Arts & Ecology Masters at Dartington School of Arts, she curates and produces exhibitions and festivals including Ferment Festival at Dartington Trust and C Words at Arnolfini. Her research and journalism has been published in International Journal of Arts in Society, Edinburgh University’s Dangerous Women Project, Climate Change Encyclopaedia, Resurgence Magazine and elsewhere.
From 2015-2022 she ran a blog for artist parents on her website.
Prior to her climate work in the arts Natasha worked as a professional violinist in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Violin Performance, Fine Art, and Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota (USA) and a Masters of Arts in Arts Management from Dartington College of Arts (UK).
She works in Devon and London, and lives with her husband and two children in Devon.
Tamzin Pinkerton
Writer, editor, writing facilitator and co-founder of Apple Barn
An active participant in the early years of the Transition Movement, Tamzin co-authored the book Local Food: How to Make it Happen in your Community (Green Books, 2010) and edited the food pages of the Transition Times amongst other projects. She is passionate about combining writing and activism and has been a core group member of Writers Rebel, co-leading their paper campaign. Tamzin has also worked as an editor and in various small charities, and has a BA in Social Anthropology and an MA in Human Rights from the University of Sussex (UK).
More recently she completed an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and her research focused on writing as gentle activism and as a way of intimately knowing experience and the world.
Tamzin is a long-term meditator and has been a student of the Ridhwan School for over 15 years. She lives in arctic Norway with her husband and dog and explores local fjords, mountains and forests daily, on foot and in ink. She also spends as much time as possible in Devon with her adult daughter and on Dartmoor which is home.
Writing Studio & Land
Our studio is home to our Adana letterpress and is set on 8 acres of re-wilding land.
We also host workshops here, as well as making use of the surrounding gardens, meadows and polytunnel where we grow our cut flowers.
The name Apple Barn is taken from a not too far away barn near Schumacher College where Tamzin, Natasha and some of their collaborators first met.
