The episodes generating the most feedback recently have been those featuring other gardeners and business owners who are trying to run green businesses, so I called on former guest and supporter of the podcast, Dave Woolmer. Dave changed career from law to gardening and has been forging ahead creating a business based on sound principles and horticultural excellence.

Links

The British Association for Supported Employment

Safe Opportunities are at safeopportunities.co.uk

Disability Confident Employment registration is at www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

And Green Heart is at facebook.com/greenhearthort

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Soil and Soul - This episode, my guest is Ella Malt. Ella runs an all female gardening team in Norfolk called Soul and Soul Norfolk Ltd. She is passionate about the intentional reimagining of existing spaces, and about renovation over replacement. Listen on to find out how Ella started her business and developed her team, whilst maintaining a focus on sustainability and nature.

Making Gardening Accessible - Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Roots and All, where my guest is garden designer, TV personality and Trustee of the Gardening with Disabilities Trust Mark Lane. Mark talks about the various types of challenges people can face that might impede their activity in the garden, and how gardens and gardening can be adapted to enable people to carry on with these activities. He gives some excellent, practical advice for anyone who may need to adapt horticulture to suit their own needs or those of others.

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My guest this episode is gardener and activist Ed Allnutt. Ed is part of Plastics Rebellion and the @plasticscrisis Instagram account and campaigns to reduce the use of plastics, particularly in a gardening context. We talk about the most common offending items in the gardening world and discuss possible solutions to the current accepted ways of gardening so we can make changes that better the environment.

Links

Plastics Crisis on instagram

Other episodes if you liked this one:

If you liked this week's episode with the Ed Allnutt, you might also enjoy this one from the archives:

Waterwise Gardening - I’m talking water-wise gardening with Janet Manning. Janet undertook a three year project with the RHS and Cranfield University where she looked at strategies and techniques currently available to gardeners to help them both conserve and manage water in a way that reduces waste and protects the environment. We talk about why there’s a need to be water-wise in wet countries like the UK, what we can do to help and why gardens are an important part of the bigger environmental picture.

Running a Green Nursery - This week I’m speaking to Chris Williams, co-founder of Edibleculture, an inspirational nursery based in Faversham in Kent. From the day the nursery was established 5 years ago, ethically and ecologically sounds principles have been employed to create the brilliant business that exists today. We talk about how the nursery succeeds where so many others are failing to make changes; using peat-free compost, gardening organically without chemicals, eliminating single use plastics from their sales output and many other initiatives that make this nursery truly revolutionary.

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Welcome to the 300th episode! Join me as I take a look back at some of my favourite episodes, some of your favourites and take a bit of time to reflect on the sheer enormity and yeah, I’ll say it, the sheer excellence of the back catalogue of the podcast!

Find out;

The Top 3 episodes of all time as ranked by downloads

How I choose guests to be on the podcast

What guest had me in tears

The ones that got away…

The episode that was a load of shit

And listeners’ pick their favourites

Links

Episode 168: Cottage Gardens with Andrew Sankey

Episode 204: No Dig with Charles Dowding

Episode 188: Huw Richards on Veg Growing

Episode 23: Esiah Levy’s SeedsShare project

Episode 136: In Search of Mycotopia with Doug Bierend

Episode 44: Creating An Ark with Mary Reynolds

Episode 281: Shrouded in Light with Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi

Episode 297: Soil and Soul with Ella Malt

Episode 294: Wood Meadows with Jake Rayson

Wildlife: Jeff Ollerton, Dave Goulson, Kate Bradbury, Terry Woods, Doug Tallamy, Richard Jones, Benjamin Vogt, Ian Bedford, Val Bourne, Paul Sterry, Hugh Warwick and Kate Risely

Q&A with Sarah Wilson

Episode 178: Feeding your Soil with Humanure

Episode 247: Botanical Education

Epsiode 66: Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants with Catherine Horwood

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