Summary
How much does it cost to rent an allotment? What food can you grow if you don’t have a garden? And can you really save money by growing your own food?
Felicity Hannah chats to Sheila, Rebecca, Ross, Paul, and Jess about their growing questions and experiences. As always our expert panel is on hand to answer their questions and give their green fingered tips.
Panel:
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones – The Black Farmer
Russell Attwood – The National Allotment Society
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
| 0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
| 0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
| 0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
| 0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan. |
| 0:21.6 | It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Alex Fondunzelman. |
| 0:26.6 | This is The Lucan Obsession. |
| 0:28.6 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:35.6 | Welcome to this Moneybox Live podcast. Today we're looking at the finances behind growing your own. A lot of us want an allotment. The waiting lists have always been long and then they really soared during the lockdowns. But in this cost of living crisis, is an allotment a way to save money on fresh fruit and veg, or is it more of a |
| 0:55.7 | money pit where slugs and snails eat your pricey plants and your valuable vegetables? We're |
| 1:01.0 | going to get our hands dirty and find out. But before we meet today's experts, let's take a call. |
| 1:05.6 | Ross is on the phone. Ross, hello. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello. Thank you very much for joining us. Now, you run the YouTube |
| 1:11.1 | channel, Grow Your Own Life. So tell me a bit about your allotment. I've been allotment |
| 1:16.6 | for probably about seven to eight years now. And it started off as a hobby, but due to |
| 1:23.7 | being a member of Dundit a few years ago, I decided to take it on and try and be more conscious |
| 1:31.5 | about how much food I make to top up the shopping for the family. |
| 1:36.4 | So very much the good life for you. |
| 1:38.8 | Do you think it does top it up? |
| 1:40.1 | Does it save you money or does it cost a lot to run? |
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