Meet Our Leaders
Jenny Quinton
Jenny Quinton was born in the UK and has lived on Lantau Island in Hong Kong for 20 years.
She became passionate about the environment a few years after she came to live here when her house nearly burnt down because of a hill-fire caused by grave-sweeping festival visitors. After that she became concerned about many environmental problems and sought ways to seek local solutions to global problems and joined several community groups supporting environmental issues. For over five years she was an executive committee member of Green Lantau Association and was on working groups for the Living Island Movement, the Environmental Campaign Committee and the Lantau Buffalo Association.
Jenny is a qualified teacher and worked with the English Schools Foundation for nine years. Several years previous to that she worked in a special needs school and in her holiday time worked on tall ships taking special needs students sailing around the UK and Europe. She still chairs the Environmental Group of ESF despite leaving Kennedy School in 2006 to set up ‘Ark Eden’. Presently over 5000 people a year engage in Ark Eden projects.
Jenny has two teenage children, who are adept at fighting hill-fires, and lives with them and her two helpers and a menagerie of pets including a pig, in a secluded rural valley in Lantau.
Bing Law Sanders
Bing Law is a Chinese Hong Kong citizen and became active in organic agriculture in 1990 at Produce Green. In 1994 Bing Law established Green Cottage Farm on Lamma Island with two partners, operating the farm as a CSA. In 1996 she managed Merry Farm in Lamma Island and New Territories until 2000. From 2001 until 2006 she and David founded and managed a CSA in the UK. In 2007 she and David founded The Green Patch, HK, providing microgardening products and services, including leading horticultural workshops.
David Sanders
David’s background in sustainable agriculture dates back to 1975 when he was engaged as an agricultural extension worker in South India. He has lived in HK since 1993 when he was engaged at Green Cottage Farm, Lamma Island. With his partner he helped managed Merry Farms on Lamma and New Territories.
In 1998 until 2000 he worked at Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden as an agricultural officer where he designed and installed a constructed wetland system to treat secondary waste water. In 2002 he founded and managed a successful Community Support Agriculture (CSA) scheme, The Green Patch in Kettering, UK. He returned to HK in 2006 and now manages a company, Green Patch HK, providing organic micro-gardening products and services, whichincludes leading educational workshops.
