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Welcome to the Food Grower Podcast. The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Copyright: © Copyright 2022 Chris (Fanfield Farm) & Jack (Jacks Patch)

Latest Episodes:

Your Growing Questions – Chris and Jack Answer Your Questions: Winter Growing, Pricing Produce, Finding Customers, and Love for Growing Aug 25, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

In this episode we are doing things a bit differently with Chris and Jack answering your questions on growing. We reached out via our Instagram account for questions and have a great list for you, here's what we cover:

Growing for Autumn and Winter
Preserving toms and peppers
Living OffGrid
Pricing Produce
Where to get seeds
Easiest and hardest veg to grow
Moving fruit trees
Growing Peppers
First memory of loving growing
How to grow broccoli
Involving children in Grow Your Own
Polytunnels
Microgreens and Mushrooms
Finding clients and customers
Bloody Blight

And much much more...

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Mitch (@Mitch_Grows) – From Chef to Grower, No Dig Principles, Weird Varieties and Self Sustainability Aug 20, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

In this episode we are delighted to have Mitch to chat to and talk about all things MitchGrows and his Kitchen Garden. We talk about:

Mitch and his Kitchen Garden
Being a chef and moving to growing food
The influences being a chef have had
Growing different varieties and trying them all
Has being a chef made you grow food differently
Wanting to be self sustainable
What can be grown in a small space
Charles Dowding, Home acres and No-Dig
Climates and growing other stuff
Foraging
Mushrooms
And much much more...

Plus the all important quick-fire questions of course…. Will Mitch be #teambeer or #teamcoffee ???

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

World Climate Map - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone#/media/File:World_Hardiness_Zones.png

Agretti - https://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_1602_agretti_roscano_seeds

Using Copper Tools Article - https://www.permaculture.co.uk/reviews/preventing-slug-damage-copper-gardening-tools

The Foragers Calendar Book - https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-foragers-calendar/john-wright/9781781256220

Festival Mitch is speaking at - https://aldeburghfoodanddrink.co.uk/

Mushroom Growing Kits Mentioned - https://marvellous-mushrooms.co.uk/

Mitch's Insta - https://www.instagram.com/mitch_grows/

Mitch's Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mitch.grows/

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Danny (Lawsons Market Garden) – Permaculture Market Gardening, Building from scratch, Willow Coppicing & Working with Nature Aug 04, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

In this episode we are delighted to have a good friend of ours on Danny from Lawsons Market Garden. We talk about:

How it all began and skills from retail that led to market gardening
What permaculture is and how it has shaped Lawsons Market Garden
How working with nature has benefits both personally and commercially
Perennial crops and establishing a working veg box scheme
Building with recycled materials
What permaculture means to Danny
How to walk the line between permaculture and producing enough veg each week
Willow Coppicing and the powers of the willow tree
Chicken Composting

Plus the all important quick-fire questions of course…. Will Danny be #teambeer or #teamcoffee ???

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

https://lawsonsmarketgarden.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lawsonsmarketgarden/

https://www.facebook.com/lawsonsmarketgarden/

Miraculous Abundance Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Miraculous-Abundance-Quarter-French-Farmers/dp/1603586423

Willow Inspiration - Rene Antonelli - Green Back Yard (Peterborough)

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Tim Dickens (Community Supported Agriculture & Teign Greens) – What is the CSA, the benefits of a sharing model to growers, community and society. Jul 28, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

In this episode we are delighted to have Tim on from the CSA Network (Community Supported Agriculture Network) we talk about:

What is Community Supported Agriculture
How CSA benefits the farmer / grower
How CSA benefits communities and society
The future for small scale growing
How the pandemic and covid have effected the way we sell food
Other types of CSA's that aren't ust veg boxes
How the model is so sustainable for the future

Tim is also a grower himself and is half of the team that runs Teign Greens, we talk to him about:

How it got started
What's important to them
Being organic and moving to approved biodiverse
How the Pandemic effected them
Being a CSA themselves

Plus the all important quick-fire questions of course…. Will Tim be #teambeer or #teamcoffee ???

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

Community Supported Agriculture Website (CSA Website) – http://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/

CSA Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/csanetwork_uk/

Teign Greens - https://www.teigngreens.co.uk/

Teign Greens Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/teigngreens/

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Hannah (@GingerGrows1) – Allotment Life, Growing in North East Weather and The Growing Community on Instagram Jul 21, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

In this episode we talk to Hannah who runs an amazing allotment in Newcastle. She has an inspirational instagram account with a wonderful following over at instagram.com/gingergrows1 - In this weeks episode we talk about:

How Hannah got her allotment and the luck of the draw
The challenges faced on her allotment journey
Pivotting a 50 year old plot to no-dig
The community of growers
The knowledge of people at allotments
Growing on every windowsill
Growing to make you happy
Different varieties and seed swapping
Wonderful woodchip

Plus the all important quick-fire questions of course.... Will Hannah prefer a beer or a coffee on the allotment?!

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

Hannah's Instagram - instagram.com/gingergrows1

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Laurence (Soul Farm) – From marketing to market gardener, solidarity veg boxes, and the power of farmers markets Jul 14, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

In this episode we talk to Laurence from Soul Farm in Cornwall. We discuss how he went from art director / graphic designer in the marketing world (for big fizzy drinks companies) to a full time market gardener. This is a brilliant episode where we cover:

Solidarity Veg Boxes - A veg box scheme with sliding scale payments that helps less fortunate still have access to great food.
The skills that the marketer can take to a market garden
How covid made Soul Farm pivot from restaurants to veg boxes
The power of farmers markets
How Laurence co-started a new farmers market and it's success
No-dig, Charles Dowding, JM Fortier and the power of training

Plus the all important quick-fire questions of course.... Will Laurence prefer a beer or a coffee on the farm?

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

Soul Farm - https://www.soulfarm.co.uk/

Soul Farm Instagram - http://instagram.com/soul.farm

Soul Farm Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/soulfarmcornwall/

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Summer Solidarity Special – Chris & Jack talk about the season so far Jul 07, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

In this episode Chris and Jack pair up to talk about the problems this season has brought in solidarity. An episode for those growing already and having problems that they shouldn't have to feel alone with.

We talk about the cold spring, heavy rains, leatherjackets, slugs, season extension, netting and so much more!

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Alex (The Essex Allotment) – Going from supermarket worker to grower, and from allotment to farm. Jun 16, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

In this episode we talk to Alex from The Essex Allotment farm which started out as an allotment and now is a market garden aiming to do 100 veg boxes a week. This is a fantastic episode where we talk with Alex about where he began and how he moved from the corporate world in retail, through to working outside and what he does now.

We explore his model, how he doesn't do any door to door delivery, plus speak about the models and people that inspire him and shape what he does.

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

The Essex Allotment - https://www.theessexallotment.com/

Alex's Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq2op-KfbM77IWOWsJlHnPw

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Chris Huskins (Fanfield Farm) – How we got land, Soil Principles and Using Animals in Permaculture Systems Jun 08, 2021

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The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

Normally this podcast is hosted by Chris and Jack but in this second ever episode Jack puts Chris in the hot seat to tell his story. We talk how Fanfield Farm came to be, the process of Urban Farming before hand, how they got on the land and live there, and how the farm has gone from a field to a farm that provides 60 veg boxes a week.

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

Show Notes:

Ecological Land Cooperative - https://ecologicalland.coop/

Niels Corfield - https://nielscorfield.com/

Geoff Lawton - Discover Permaculture - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_r1ELEvAuN0peKUxI0Umw

Curtis Stone - Urban Farmer - https://theurbanfarmer.co/

JM Fortier - The Market Gardener - https://www.themarketgardener.com/book

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Jacks Patch – Permaculture Principles, Inspiration to start & The 2021 Growing Season May 29, 2021

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This is the first episode in a brand new podcast called The Food Grower Podcast:

The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world.

Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell.

Normally this podcast is hosted by Chris and Jack but in this first episode Chris puts Jack in the hot seat to tell his story. We talk how Jack got experience in Australia and Croatia, Why he chose No-Dig, The Important Permaculture Principles on his farm, Small Scale Farming and the all important questions in our Quick Fire Round.

This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing.

We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!!

For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk

And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from.

And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat.

Don’t forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

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