
Growing your own food
Published: Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 7:00 am
Claire Ratinon, food grower and author of How to Grow Your Dinner Without Leaving the House, shares her tips for raising your own veg, with plenty of tips for those with just a limited space. She reveals how volunteering on a roof-top farm in New York got her hooked on vegetable growing and changed her life for the better. She examines the effect of growing vegetables on our wellbeing and why it matters that we play a part in managing where our food comes from.
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Listen now to this fascinating discussion between Claire Ratinon and Miranda Janatka, staff writer at BBC Gardeners' World Magazine:
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Find out more
- How To Grow Your Dinner Without Leaving The House (Laurence King)
- Claire Ratinon’s website
- Growing Communities
- How to make the most of a small veg plot
- Windowsill veg container ideas
- Space saving veg crops to grow
- Grow your own mushrooms – Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms
- Veg seed company – Real Seeds
- Unusual veg seed company – Plants Of Distinction
- Kitchen garden kit – B&Q
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