Tamzin is co-founder of Apple Barn, a creative collaboration offering ways to express and explore oneself through craft, writing and being in nature. She is also co-author of their substack, https://applebarn.substack.com/.

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. She is passionate about combining writing and activism and has been a core group member of Writers Rebel, co-leading their paper campaign. She has also worked as an editor and contributing author of the Conscious 2 blog and as one of the principal writers of activist group Mothers’ Manifesto’s Pink Paper.

Tamzin is a long-term meditator and regularly engages with the practice of inquiry, both with others and through writing. She has been a student of the Ridhwan School for over 16 years and has recently joined their teacher training programme. 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.