The joys of growing and gardening with kids with Anna Greenland - Episode 228

grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends

Sarah Raven

Food, Grow, Home & Garden, Arranging, Arts, Cooking, Kitchen, Arrangements, Lifestyle, Vegetables, Eat, Eating, Flower Arranging, Sarah Raven, Planting, Garden, Produce, Gardener, Flowers, Growing, Cook, Leisure, Veg Garden, Home, Gardening

4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Between starting out at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall, a spot on Alan Titchmarsh’s new TV show, and raising two young daughters, organic grower Anna Greenland is a modern horticultural heroine. Returning to ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ this month, Anna joins Sarah to share how she inspires her children to grow with her, tips for encouraging younger family members to embrace gardening, and what to sow or harvest now to enjoy the kitchen garden’s greatest gifts. In this episode, discover: How A...

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0:00.0	Thanks so much for listening to Grow Cook Eat Arrange. I'm sitting in the kitchen at Perch Hill
0:05.2	and the garden's looking particularly lovely at the moment and so I just wanted to do a kind of
0:11.1	NB to anyone who's within shouting distance of Perch Hill or not quite shouting distance but
0:17.9	travel distance which is we're open for the next few months a few days a month
0:22.9	and yeah it would be really lovely to see you so go on our website and you'll find all the
0:29.2	details of booking there you can book lunch on three different time slots or you can just come
0:34.0	and wander around the garden so it's garden only or garden visit plus lunch.
0:38.7	So I hope to see some of you then.
0:50.6	Welcome to Grow Cookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and various different guests.
0:56.9	And today I'm rejoined by Anna Greenland.
1:01.2	And Anna amazingly was very early on one of the guests on the podcast because we were talking about her really wonderful book.
1:11.5	I love it called Grow Easy about growing veg for kind of beginners, really,
1:16.4	and it's very empowering and beautiful as is everything, Anna.
1:22.2	If any of you want to refer back to that to hear more about her book
1:25.8	and her sort of setting out as a vegetable
1:28.9	grower in Suffolk. It's episode 36. So check it out. It was in October 21, amazingly. So it was just
1:36.8	when we were coming out of lockdown, wasn't it? Anna. Welcome, by the way. Sorry, I was
1:40.5	wintering on. Hello. Hello. hi, Sarah. Yeah, it was.
1:44.5	It was just off the back of lockdown.
1:46.0	I think that's what sort of boosted the book, really, people going back to the land
1:50.3	during the pandemic.
1:52.5	So, yeah, yeah, it's funny to think it's been that long since we last spoke.
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