“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margret Mead

Our urban environments have the highest densities of human populations that need to be sustained. As there is no such thing as a post-agricultural society each urban person’s dietry requirements need to be satisfied. Due to the predicted effects of climate change and the increasing constraints on plant productivity caused pests, diseases and weeds, K G Davies Limited is a business designed to connect rural food production to urban consumption by acting as a catalyst between the public sector, the private sector and non-governmental sectors (eg. NGOs, educational institutions and charities). It thereby acts as a catalyst between fundamental academic research, applied research and the commercial grower. Focusing on the role of plant root health, the company provides intellectual capital and expertise in the areas of research, development, project management and training.

Project management uses an associative leadership model based on a common vision embraced by internal and external stakeholders (see Davies & Wolf-Phillips (2006) Trends in Biotechnology 24, 57-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2005.12.007).

The Venn diagrams are adapted from my book William Blake, the Single Vision and Newton’s Sleep in which I argue that William Blake was hugely critical of Newton the materialist scientist. Newton was a unitarian and could not progress his career at University of Cambridge because he did not agree with the Christian view of the Trinity and therefore left the University and became a banker. Science is based on the sovereignty of reason which Blake thought needed to be balanced with imagination, for without contraries there is no progress.