Over 50 lectures about Ladakh at the Royal Geographical Society, The Alpine Club, The Scott Polar Institute, Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol Universities, the Maison de Science de L'Homme, Paris and many schools up and down the country

          1991-1993

James worked with Morna Watson of Theatre of the Heart, as producer of Blood Earth & Medicine with John Sherlock, John and Margaret Cluett and Nathaniel of Wessex, in 30 highly successful performances ranging from Dorset, Somerset and North Devon to Hyde Park and Ways With Words, the Dartington Literary Festival

          1996-1998

A dozen performances of In Time of Flood with John Sherlock and then Jenny de Gex

          1996-1999

Half a dozen performances of "Eat Your Words - Thought for Food" with John & Margaret Cluett from Shaftesbury based on historical data gleaned from Dorset Archives and in particular focuses on the condition of women and children in Dorset Agriculture in the1840's and 1860's verbatim accounts bringing alive living and working conditions

          1996-1998

Guided walks & workshops on the Somerset Levels & Blackdown Hills

  1999

Worked closely with Common Ground as their Apple day Poet Laureate

  2000

Worked on Skyline Project in Bath for Cotswold AONB and Nat Trust

  2001

He was selected by the Poetry Society for a 2 week residency at Wheal Jane and South Crofty

  2000

Appeared at Royal Bath and West Show as a special orchard feature with Common Ground

  2000

Talk on Cider at Ludlow Rural Matters Literary Festival

  2001

Talk on Cider at the Oxford Literary Festival
Poetry featured on Bus Stop travelling art gallery project

  2001

Wrote the libretto for Silver Messenger and took part in Common Ground performance in Christchurch Priory

  2001

Worked with Chris Chapman on Foot & Mouth poetry North Devon.

  2001

3 days workshops and poet in residence at Brogdale Horticultural Trust

  2001

Produces Cider makers & Apple Juice Map for Somerset County Council

  2004

James has been deeply involved with orchard educational projects in Jersey, Somerset and Dorset, taking school children into orchards at different times of year and getting them to write poems and make their own sketches and paintings. In Somerset he was helped by the painter Kate Lynch.