Rare Breeds at Europe’s Largest City Farm and Encouraging Wildflower Growth with Mudchute Farm Manager, Tom Davis - Episode 75

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Sarah Raven

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Many of us gain so much of our knowledge of farming, livestock and produce from all-important city farms, much like the wonderful Mudchute Farm in London, run diligently by fantastic Farm Manager Tom Davis. Tom has led Mudchute to achieving the Rare Breeds Survival Trust approval, teaches 20-25k kids each and every year, and notably takes sheep to graze on the royal parks. We’ll be hearing about keeping rare breed livestock, how natural grazing leads to beautiful wildflower growth, and more. ...

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0:00.0	You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we
0:04.3	talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website
0:08.6	at sarahavin.com.
0:19.8	Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and my friend Sarah Raven.
0:24.6	Today Sarah is off, but I am joined by someone who actually I first saw an evening standard quite a few years ago,
0:31.6	who magnificently was standing outside Buckingham Palace. Surprisingly within the Paltair flower beds,
0:38.1	but what made the photo quite memorable for me
0:41.0	was the fact that he was surrounded by sheep on Leeds.
0:44.0	So I'm joined by Farmer Tom, Tom Davis,
0:47.0	who some of you will know from being with Alan Titmarsh
0:49.9	on his show at the weekend on ITV.
0:58.4	Thank you. on his show at the weekend on ITV. He's an incredible supporter of rare breeds,
1:01.1	is a farm manager at Mutshoot Farm,
1:03.7	which is an amazing city farm,
1:06.0	15 minutes walk from Canary Wharf,
1:08.4	if you take the footbridge,
1:10.2	and it's in the middle of the Isle of Dogs.
1:12.5	So welcome, Tom.
1:13.4	Thank you for joining me.
1:14.0	I know you're very busy with managing the farm.
1:16.7	Well, thank you very much for asking me to take part, and it's a pleasure talking to you,
1:21.6	and I didn't know that that was the first time that you'd sort of, I could come to your attention with me,
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