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 sarahraven.com. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson and Sarah Raven.

In this episode, we're joined by a guest, Rachel Siegfried, of Green and Gorgeous Flowers.

For those of you that follow Rachel on her Instagram, you'll be there familiar with her incredible cutflower farm of pure abundance.

Rose of roses, renunculus.

Often she's accompanied by a beautiful dog and I know she's got chickens.

And it's a real pleasure, pleasure Rachel to have you with us because

I remember you coming to Perch Hill a few years ago now to do a course on on flower farming,

not flower gardening but flower farming because it really is for you and your partner a proper

business isn't it? Yes, yes it is. Thank you Arthur for that lovely introduction and to Sarah as well for asking me to come on.

It's always a joy to talk flowers and particularly roses, which are one of my favourites.

Yes, so it is with my partner, Ashley, very much are a full-time occupation and lifestyle. So we live here on

the flower farm. We've been here 13 years and we're up, we're up to five acres now that

we're farming. So it's quite an enterprise, yes. Yes. You need to update your website.

It says two acres.

She's gone up since.

Does it?

Yeah.

Oh, gosh.

I've been too busy out there, you see.

I haven't got time to update it.

But Rachel, that's interesting that you've managed to spread because I think of you're

between sort of, you're just off the M40, Oxford and Redding, kind of. And I think of that as such

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