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today to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven.

And today I'm joined by a friend and colleague, Ayr Anderson, who is just the most wonderful person who I'm sure lots of you have heard on the podcast before

but she is just like the sun she just emanates joy and care for other people and anyway

hello Eric how lovely to see you oh thank you sir it's lovely as always to see you i feel like

i've come home when i come and sit on the podcast or I'm down at

Perch here. It's lovely.

Oh, good. So Arrett is doing the most incredibly ambitious and exciting project at the Chelsea

Flash Show in May this year. So just in a week or two. And I just really wanted to pin her down.

Poor Ararat. She's so busy as one always is. So we're really

lucky to have her. But I would love her to talk us through why she's doing, who she's doing it

for and the themes. And then, of course, maybe a little bit on the highs and lows so far,

which obviously there are some yet come. But, yeah, first of all, tell us about

the evolution of how it came about. Yeah, well, it was an evolution, I can assure you. So it started

with the fact I'm not a trustee of the National Garden scheme. I think you know that, which I love.

I love the simplicity of it. Open a garden.

You have to have tea and cake.

And then we make lots of money for beneficiaries of healthcare charities, one of which is Parkinson's.

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