Where I Grow

Forests cover around 30% of the world’s land area, and provide numerous “ecosystem services” to humans, such as filtering our water, protecting against natural hazards, providing timber and non-timber forest products, providing food and fuel as well as being carbon sinks that can help mitigate climate change. Not only that, but they are habitats to a vast array of plants and animals, with very interlocked and sometimes mesmerising ecosystems that allow life to exist in some pretty amazing ways. This is why they are both very cool and very important!

Back in 2009 (after numerous dead-end jobs) I decided I wanted to get to know them better, so I retook my school leaving exams aged 26 in order to gain admission to the BOKU University in Vienna. Since then, forests and forest sciences have taken me to the Amazon, South East Asia, to numerous parts of the Alps and even to the Negev desert, and I am as passionate and committed to learning more about them as I am to writing songs for you all.

In October 2021 I played a show in Rome for the World Food Forum, where I outlined why forests are vital for our planet. Watch below.