Archives: Growers Stories

Marie & Jim’s Allotment

Marie from 4 Muddy Boots
Avid allotment gardeners Marie and Jim are a huge source of inspiration to many, they share their gardening journey to a following of over 17K on Instagram. Here we chat with them to find out who and what inspires them.

Your Organic PT (AKA Lydia Lakemoore)

Your Organic PT,
Lydia Lakemoore is a qualified personal trainer, student medical herbalist and advocate of organic gardening methods working with The Herbalists, Jackson's of Yorkshire, an 88-year-old herbalist store.

Chris Huskins Market Garden at Fanfield Farm

Chris Fan Field Farm Regenerative Agriculture
From the back garden to a market garden serving a community of 60 families read how Chris Huskins went about setting up Fanfield Farm, a Regenerative Community Farm in Arlington, East Sussex.

Mike The Gardener

On Instagram Mike is famous for his 'Sunday Stroll' LIVE sessions and his LIVE interviews with well know gardening celebrities, authors, designers and more. We thought we'd turn the mic on Mike to find out more about him!

Ann-Marie Powell the multi-award winning garden designer

You may know Ann-Marie Powell from her TV appearances on shows including The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Garden SOS, Real Gardens and The Great Garden Challenge. Or from her books, articles, blog and more recently her instagram page My Real Garden, where she documents her own garden journey. Ann-Marie is a huge source of inspiration and we loved catching up with her to find out more about how she got into garden design and horticulture.

Meet Rob Smith – winner of BBC2’s Allotment Challenge

You may know Rob Smith as the winner of the recent BBC2's Allotment Challenge. He is also a columnist for weekly gardening magazine Garden News and monthly magazine Kitchen Garden. We chatted to Rob to find out more about his passions and inspirations.

Meet Alex Horne founder of The Essex Allotment

The Essex Allotment Farm, Regenerative Agriculture
Alex quit the corporate world (at Tesco's for 14 years) to pursue a vision of creating a market garden business based on the principles of regenerative agriculture. His farm allows people to have direct access to locally grown produce.

Gardening tutor and instagram star August Hudson

If you’re on instagram and you’re into gardening you most probably will have come across August Hudson who makes it her mission through her daily posts to inspire others to grow their own food. We caught up with August to find out more about her daily life and what got her into gardening.