behind the scenes

JUDITH GRAY

Judith has been the co-publisher and book review editor of Earth Garden for more than 30 years. She lives with her husband Alan and children on a solar-powered ‘urban farm’ at Cable Beach in Western Australia. Judith is an accomplished artist, art teacher, and yoga and meditation teacher. She is knowledgeable about food gardening, compost and chooks. Judith also runs the Earth Garden office, as well as being a Director of the Earth Garden Foundation Ltd, which she helped establish in 2008. Judith has been involved in many other projects and environmental campaigns, and home-schooled three of her children for three years. She was the main cook for a local emergency food charity in Broome, training other cooks for five years. She has travelled extensively throughout the remote deserts of Australia, and trekked in the Himalayas to the most remote Tibetan valleys to install solar lighting in health posts.

ALAN GRAY

Alan has been the editor of since 1987. He lives with Judith (co-publisher) and their family on a solar-powered urban farm at Cable Beach in WA. Alan worked as a journalist in Melbourne before taking over from Keith and Irene Smith. He has always been an environmental and social activist, pre-dating the Franklin Blockade. Alan is the Chairperson of the Earth Garden Foundation, and has worked for 14 years with their Indigenous partners in the Himalayas to install solar lighting and power in more than 60 remote village health posts and regional hospitals throughout Nepal. Alan and Judith owned Australia’s first commercial