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This week I'm joined by Ed Morrison, and he's got the most amazing story, which I'm longing for you all to hear.

He runs an organisation called Roots allotments, but I'm not going to say any more before I welcome

him and let him tell his story. So hello, Ed. How are you doing?

Hey, Sarah. I'm doing really, really good. Thank you very much.

It's a nice day. Oh, I was going to say I've been out in the sunshine. I finally brought

myself to cut my lawn. It's been since early, early spring and I've just given it a little cut.

And I kind of felt a bit guilty because we did no-mo May and then it turned into no-mo June and

then it turned into no-mo July. And my girlfriend was like, I need to start practicing some yoga in the garden, but the grass is four-foot high.

So please can you cut it?

And I was like, okay, all right.

Yeah, I can see her point.

I think it's fair time to cut it now.

So, Ed, tell us all about kind of where you came from and then talk us through the history of roots.

Yeah, sure.

So my growing journey started at the beginning of lockdown.

Like so many people sort of had this bit of an awakening that they wanted to get their hands in the earth.

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