Sustainability at the Heart of Rookery Farm with David Robinson #BONUS

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Sarah Raven

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at Rookery Farm Nursery, and the indomitable David Robinson has been a major piece of the puzzle for over a decade. The land has been in David’s family for over 100 years, so it’s a delight to delve into that rich history on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, where we learn how the nursery began, and some of the sustainable practices that might inspire you to become more environmentally friendly in your gardening too. In this episode, discover: The ...

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0:00.0	You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahavin.com.
0:19.7	Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and my great mate, Arthur
0:24.9	Parkinson. Now, we're doing a rare thing today, which is we're actually going to have a three-way
0:29.9	conversation, which Arthur and I agreed we wouldn't do again, because we found three-way was
0:35.3	quite difficult when we're remote with COVID because we kept
0:38.9	interrupting each other. But today we are in our nursery in Lincolnshire and it's just so
0:45.9	incredibly exciting to be here, particularly because I really wanted to chat to David Robinson,
0:52.1	who runs rookery farm, which is the nursery. And I wanted to chat to David Robinson, who runs rookery farm, which is the nursery.
0:56.0	And I wanted to chat to him about how he came to be a nurseryman, what he loves about being
1:02.5	a nurseman, the challenges, and kind of how we came to work together.
1:07.6	And then also just challenges of working in a modern environment in terms of
1:12.5	employment but also in terms of sustainability. Arthur and I just thought it would be really
1:21.4	really lovely to kind of interview David to an extent about all things plant nursery for online so everything going out
1:31.6	in the post. So welcome David. It's lovely to have you here. Well, for you to have us here actually.
1:36.7	That's fine. Not the other way around. They're welcome. We're pleased to see Arthur here as well.
1:41.1	It's your first visit to Rookery Farm. First amazing visits.
1:45.0	I hope you've enjoyed it.
1:46.2	In awe of you.
1:47.0	It's incredible what you've done here.
1:48.7	Well, you're welcome back any time.
1:50.2	Anyway, Arthur, come on your own.
1:51.1	Yeah, it's not too far from where I'm from.
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