Healthy kids with Matt Willer

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Are the kids of today healthy? It’s hard to tell when our young people seem so addicted to phones and screens. But could gardening, of all things, hold the key to better mental and physical health and an improved diet for the next generation. Adam Frost chats to Matt Willer founder of the Papillon Project, a charity that works with secondary schools and pupil referral units to increase environmental awareness. A key area of Matt’s work involves creating school allotments and encouraging healthy eating, so he knows first-hand the positive impact gardening can have on children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, what are you watching at the moment?
0:01.8	Squid Game, Dad.
0:03.0	Let's watch it together this weekend.
0:04.9	Would that be nice?
0:06.0	What's it on again?
0:06.8	Netflix. You've got EETV, so you just switch it on. What season are we up to? Um, four? That's Stranger Things, Mum. And what about the kids? Don't worry, they'll watch Coca-Mellon for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV, plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:04.5	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV, plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:22.4	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the whole family.
0:25.4	EETV requires EEB Broadband, separate 24-month contracts for TV and broadband content of airy-term supply.
0:30.7	Hello and welcome to the BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team here at the magazine.
0:39.4	Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favorite experts as a dad I worry about the health of my kids
0:51.8	like most parents grandparents anybody that anybody that's surrounded by young
0:56.6	people, we see them on their phones, semi-addicted to screens. But I do believe that connection
1:04.2	to what's going on outside the back door holds the key to better mental, physical health and it could even improve the diet
1:14.5	of the next generation. Hello, I'm Adam Frost and today I'm talking to Matt Willer, founder of
1:20.6	the Papillon Project, charity that works with secondary schools and pupil referral units to increase
1:27.4	environmental awareness.
1:30.1	Key part of Matt's work is working with schools, creating allotments, encouraging, healthy eating.
1:36.5	So he knows firsthand the positive effect that gardening can have on our children.
1:43.9	Matt, hello, lovely to meet you.
1:46.0	Very nice to meet you too, Adam.
1:48.1	We're going to talk about kids today.
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