You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this on the verge of the end of the year and into a new year but it also happens to be our episode 100 of the podcast.

So that's amazing. We've been going nearly two years now. And I thought it was a

very apt time to have Adam talking about New Year's resolutions. Really what I wanted to concentrate

on today was what we can do in our garden, all of us, that can really help

affect the terrible plight of our planet, which of course, 2022 has been a year pretty profoundly

depressing in many, many ways. And let's all hope that 2023 can be more cheerful, but we can in a way cheer

ourselves with actually doing something about it. And so that's why I want Adam to explain what he

knows, he's not a leading expert at all, but we've just had a carbon audit done here and a biodiversity

audit done here. And so what we can all learn from the

research that he's done on this particular place that we can extend all the way around the

country with all of your gardens and all of your spaces. So Adam, why don't you explain

the main things that we can do? Yes, okay. So, I mean, the carbon audit was an incredibly interesting process.

These experts came and dug in the soils and we sent the soils off to be

analysed and they looked at what we grow and how we grow it and how many hedges and trees

we have, what sort of long grass,

what permanent grass we have and what area of tillage. And they did it for the farm here

and for the garden jointly. And the whole place it turned out was emitting a huge, huge amount, 83 tonnes equivalent of carbon dioxide every year.

I mean, really, it's like a great balloon of it.

But at the same time, because there were so many trees and hedges, it was absorbing and storing, sequestrating, as they say, 56 tonnes.

And so the difference between what is being pumped out and what is being sucked back in is about 20 tonnes equivalent.

But I just want to stop you there because, I mean, I would have thought that as organic

gardeners who are interested in nature, who have, you know, we have massively decreased,

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