If there’s one person who should know how to get kids gardening, it must be ex Blue Peter gardener, host of the Skinny Jean Gardener Podcast and author of a new book called exactly that. Lee Connelly joins me in this episode to talk about his work.
Read moreWind and smoke
I have an oddly conflicted relationship with the wind. At once stimulating, annoying and frightening, occasionally helpful and sometimes strangely comforting. We might learn that a body of air will move from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure, but that’s hardly an explanation that satisfies our enquiry. Why is the wind, we wonder, and where is it going?
Read moreWhat must our gardens think?
Five o’clock and it’s still light. Just. This is encouraging. This is... inspiring! If the weather hadn’t been so filthy today, I’d’ve been out there till the dark dropped, beavering away, tidying away, Getting Things Ready. But the thing is, I haven’t been, and the garden waits patiently for me to get back into the swing…
Read moreThe Gardens, weeds & words podcast, Series 2 Episode 6
The nature memoir is something of a publishing phenomenon just now – but I can’t imagine a time when I’ll weary of hearing about yet another book in which I get to read of another’s life experience set within the context of the natural world. In this episode, I talk to Alice Vincent about how she found the process of writing Rootbound. Rewilding a Life, and some of the key themes of the book.
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