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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and my great mate, Arthur Parkinson.

And today we are joined by two people that neither of us have met, but we're really excited to chat to.

And they are the land gardeners, Bridger Elworthy and Henrietta Courtold. And the reason that we've

asked them to chat is about soil. Because of course in spring, when everything starts to grow,

the key ingredient to gardening is soil. And it's so easy to kind of plant stuff at this time of

you and just forget about where it's coming from and what is going to make it healthy or not.

And that's why we invited both Bridget and Henrietta to really fill this half hour pretty much with soil talk.

Welcome both of you. It's lovely to have you here.

Oh, Sarah and Arthur, we're absolutely delighted to be here. And Henry and I remember very well coming on some of your courses about 15 years ago

and sitting at your feet and listening to all your

pearls of wisdom about growing. So thank you.

It's great to be with you.

I didn't know that, but that's really nice.

And I'm sort of taking a step back from teaching, really, but it's still one of my great passions.

But anyway, we're not too here to talk about me.

Tell us the whole story of how you met, how you set up the land gardeners, you know, where you're going. Just fill us in on

everything. Well, I suppose we met at extraordinarily, we met at the nursery gate. So our children

were at nursery school together. Right. And Bridgie and I got to know

each other and started chatting. And soon we should have been chatting play dates and whether our

children were going to meet to play. But in fact, we started chatting soil and flowers and birds and bees

and found that we had this wonderful common

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