Who We Are
We are experienced artists and horticulturalists who have provided activities and exhibits for national organisations such as The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the National Trust, London galleries, museums and hospitals, national research institutions as well as local libraries, community gardens and food banks.
Jennie Pedley artist and former NHS health professional
Nik Thomson expert Horticulturalist and teacher
Tara Sampy artist and gardener
Jennie is an artist and former NHS health professional, who concieved Edible East in 2020 and has been running its activities since then, alongside her own art practice.
Nik is an experienced horticulturalist and teacher
Tara Sampy
Tara is an artist and gardener, former art teacher, with extensive experience in museum education, she also has a passion for plants
Some partners that we have worked with
We have been working with the Norfolk Green Care Network since 2020. In a dialogue with many organisations we are exploring how best to offer new community food growing opportunities that would also improve biodiversity, soil health and help adapt local green spaces to climate change.
Norwich Research Park is one of the largest single-site concentrations of research in food, genomics and health in Europe. The Park brings together four independent internationally-renowned research institutes: John Innes Centre, Quadram Institute, Earlham Institute and The Sainsbury Laboratory; with University of East Anglia (UEA) and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH). Together the Park creates a community of people, place and resources that stimulates ideas and delivers innovation to change lives and rethink society!
The science, art and writing initiative breaks down traditional barriers between the arts and sciences. Through creative use of science in the classroom, SAW inspires artistic and scientific endeavour. Children realise that science and the arts are interconnected – and they discover new and exciting ways of looking at the world.
Norwich Science Festival hosted Jennie Pedley's installation Art of The Gut in 2019, which was created with the Quadram institute and funded by Arts Council England. This project was crucial in Jennie's inspiration to create Edible East.
In 2021 Norwich Science Festival hosted a tour of the trail run by Jennie and scientists from the Quadram Institute with British Sign Language interpretation.
Norfolk Museum Services
The museums in Norwich worked with us to develop and host exhibits of our trail in the windows Stranger's Hall and Norwich Museum at the Bridewell. Norwich Castle Museum hosted artworks on their gates and Gressenhall Museum met with us online and shared local food stroies to inspire us.
Norwich BID linked us to various sites for our trail including Anglia Square, Chantry Place shopping centre and a shop on London St.
Norwich Heritage Churches and their churchyard gardeners 'Heavenly Gardens' provided us with many sites for our trail and are continuing to host our art works.
Hungate Medieval Art hosted evnts during and after the trail and are continuing to display a sculpture by Louise Maclaren installed by Chris Jackson.
Food growing Organisations
We have been supporting the work of local community food growing organisations who have also contributed to our events.
Other funders of the trail
