Project Maya is an environmental community interest company established by myself and other conservation scientists to found a global network of permaculture nature reserves run by the community and in the interest of the local community across the globe. Maya Reserves are a radically different approach to nature reserves, as they are a holistic place for both people and nature to be together in harmony. Our approach is based on best practice research and inspired by my own research into public participation in conservation

To build up the capital we need to buy reserves, we launched our multi award winning wildflower gardening product – ‘Seedball”. Seedball is a gardening product aimed to raise the number of people growing wildflowers in their gardens as a way of increasing habitats for our bees, butterflies and other wildlife.

We also run the Maya Academy, teaching courses on permaculture, sustainability and knowledge exchange/increasing impact of research (now spin out company Fast Track Impact) and run a number of super environmental/wildflower campaigns often in collaboration with other social enterprises, non profits and charities such as RSPB, Plantlife, Friends of the Earth, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Climate Revolution and Ecotricity. We also have teamed up with major thought leaders and celebs such as Vivienne Westwood, Simon King OBE, Stephen Moss, Helen Browning OBE, Dale Vince OBE, Marian Spain and Gordon Sebright.

We own a nature reserve on the Devon/Cornwall border.