Growing Wild's Podcast: Recent Episodes
Growing Wild
A foray into the outdoors - from foraging to wild camping to stream dipping and beyond. Nature comes to your radio! Originally broadcast on Radio Reverb. Sponsored by Infinity Foods.
This month we talk all things allotment. How to get one, what to do with one, what they bring to your life and how brilliant they are generally. We hear from Emma Houldsworth of Plot 22, resident gardener Sophie and Diane Appleyard of the National Allotment Society. Dig in.
This month we talk land. Access to, obstruction of and how we farm it. Featuring Marion Shoard, Outdoor Spaces Society and film makers Asa and Hilary from The Worm is Turning.
Wild swimming special! Featuring photographer and swimmer Vivienne Rickman Poole, the Outdoor Swimming Society and Leap In by Alexandra Heminsley. Plunge in!
This month we hear from BHOGG, an organic growing group based in Brighton; Sussex Wildlife Trust tells us about their initiative 30 days Wild and we return to Susanna and her Romney sheep to see how the last year has gone.
This month Charlotte meets natural navigator; Tristan Gooley, chats with Beth Nicholls about her citizen science project and Ben Cross talks to us about the current state of the British cut flower industry.
This month we visit herbalist Alice Bettany and have a swig on some concoctions we create whilst touring her herb site. We hear from Jane Perrone about her new podcast; On the Ledge and we have a chat to Charlotte Harris about her upcoming garden for RHS Chelsea flower show.
Charlotte caught of up with two of the speakers from this years Seedy Sunday in Brighton; Nick Mole of the Pesticide Action Network and David Price of the Seed Co-operative. We also chat to Lyndsey Haskell of What you Sow and Emmaus Brighton. Great folk all inspiring the good fight!
This month we head out for a walk with the birds in some Sussex woodland, speak with the Ouse and Adur rivers trust about a serious pollution by Plumpton College and get some winter gardening tips from our resident gardener, Sophie.
This month Charlotte goes tracking and trailing with John Rhyder, out with the harris hawks looking for rabbits and talks to Save our Green Spaces about impending budget cuts to parks around the city.
This month Charlotte goes Wild camping with author and adventurer Phoebe Smith and talks hedges with River Cottage's John Wright.
We're back! In this episode Charlotte heads off to Elderflower Fields festival for a spot of foraging and Forest School, a quick chat with some folk at the South of England show and finishes up at Old Tree Brewery finding out about edible landscapes and fermenting at this wonderful small scale brewery.
That time we went to Chelsea Flower Show ... and spoke to Dame Judi Dench. Lots of other celebs and fantastic garden designers too, plus an interview with Ann-Marie Powell about the RHS project, Greening Grey Britain. (apologies for slight background buzzing sound...)
This month Charlotte goes lambing with Susanna and her Barcombe Romneys, visits a community garden in Brighton and heads into some sussex woodland to go singing with the nightingales with folk singer Sam Lee.