About Karl Elliot-Gough

Karl Elliot-Gough studied archaeology and anthropology at UCL, took techno music to SE Asia (Thailand and Indonesia), and is a former musician, producer and record label owner providing aural pleasure from non-genre specific quality electronic music. Twelve years of research and writing for his first book The Seven Deadly Whites: The Rise of the Diseases of Civilization (Earth Books, 2016). Karl lives in the Sussex countryside with his wife and 4 children and enjoys West German ceramics, a theremin, things megalithic and anthropologic, cycling fast, foraging slow and can sometimes be found taking walks and talks at festivals.

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Seven Plants to Save the World

We warmly welcome Karl Elliot-Gough, author of Seven Plants to Save the World, as our featured author this month. Karl’s book is born from nearly a decade of working solely and closely with seven plants—nettle, dandelion, yarrow, plantain, cannabis, hawthorn and blackberry. Using these seven key plants, his book blends […]

Karl Elliot-Gough | 6th June 2025