Natalie has been the editor of the Guardian Weekly newspaper, a volunteer with the Thai National Commission on Women’s Affairs, and a (not very good) rugby player, football goalie and cricket wicketkeeper. She has lived on three continents, taken degrees in agricultural science, history and politics, and social science, and gone from being the child of an apprentice carpenter in Australia to membership of the UK House of Lords (since 2019). She joined the Green Party of England and Wales on January 1, 2006, with the resolution to “do something” about the state of the world, but would never have predicted where it would lead her. A feminist from age five, when she was told because she was a girl, she was not allowed to have a bicycle, Natalie became a Green when she saw thriving, life‑rich soil on a biodynamic farm in Australia, in contrast to the depleted, trashed soils of mainstream farming methods. She can get very geeky about soil biology when the chance arises. She chose to leave Australia in frustration at its money‑dominated and anti‑intellectual political culture, and moved in her mind not just to the United Kingdom, but Europe. You can find regular writing from Natalie on her Substack.