Growing together, a community gardening special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The transformative power of gardening has never been more evident – or more necessary – than it is now. This week guest presenters TV gardener Danny Clarke and Alana Cama from the RHS Campaign for School Gardening explore communal urban gardens tackling inequality and food poverty in Los Angeles with activist Indy Srinath. Closer to home we meet Tayshan Hayden-Smith. He's CEO of Grow2Know, a non-profit organisation born from the ashes of the Grenfell Tower disaster, that now empowers young people through horticulture. Tayshan talks about breaking through the barriers to make gardening and horticulture truly inclusive and sharing their amazing benefits for health and wellbeing with everyone. Plus a look at what the RHS is doing to promote community gardening across the country.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of.
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth.
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five score free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:32.6	We've all been spending much more time closer to home over the last few months,
0:36.8	meaning many of us have been getting to know our local areas and communities much more than we've done before.
0:42.3	Whether through spending more time shopping locally, getting to know our neighbours,
0:46.3	or improving our living spaces, both inside and out, community has become an increasingly more important part of our days. And it's seeing these impacts that community growing has on people, places and the environment
1:00.0	that makes me so passionate about my role at the RHS.
1:05.0	I'm Alana Karma and it's my job with my brilliant team and colleagues
1:09.0	to support schools, youth groups and community groups
1:12.0	in learning how to grow food, plants and develop gardens and spaces that connect us together.
1:17.9	So I'm really excited to be a guest presenter on gardening with the RHS this week as this show
1:22.1	is all about gardening with and in your community. And I'm very happy to be joined by the wonderful gardener and designer
1:28.6	Danny. Hello, Danny. Hello, Alana. How are you? I'm very well, thank you. How are you?
1:33.6	I'm tickety-boo, thank you. So I know you're very passionate about community gardening, Danny. Why is this?
1:42.3	Well, I think it's important because a lot of people don't have
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