Latest Freshproduce Podcast Episodes
Why horticulture should get on board with the benefits of horticulture therapy with Annabelle Padwick
Horticulture Week Podcast - January 19, 2024 09:50 - 20 minutesAnnabelle Padwick is a professional gardener, well-being practitioner and founder of Life at No.27. Her first experience of horticulture was growing on her allotment in 2015. She was having psychotherapy at the time and "hoping that I could learn some new skills, but also [hoping] it might help...
Confessions of a landscape gardener with Alan Sargent
Horticulture Week Podcast - January 12, 2024 08:59 - 25 minutesLandscape industry veteran of 53 years, there's little Alan Sargent hasn't seen when it comes to landscape and garden projects. And now he's decided to write some of the more curious, humourous and even scandalous ones in his latest book, "Confessions of a Landscape Gardener". With a career spa...
TV Garden Ninja Lee Burkhill on passing on garden knowledge
Horticulture Week Podcast - January 05, 2024 08:45 - 21 minutesGarden designer Lee Burkhill - better known as the Garden Ninja - is a career changer (from law in an IT setting). After a part-time RHS garden design course (which he thought of as a passtime), couple of competitions and RHS shows later, his career took off, "like being strapped to a rocket! ...
Growing and selling plants with Sue Beesley of Bluebell Cottage Gardens
Horticulture Week Podcast - December 22, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutesSue Beesley is owner of Bluebell Cottage Gardens and nursery in Cheshire. She grows and propagates 700 different perennials at the nursery which she took over in 2007. From an IT background Sue came into horticulture "as a complete amateur" at the age of 45. "I think one of the great things ab...
Year-End discussion with David Coletto
Produce Talks - December 14, 2023 19:25 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsRon Lemaire President of CPMA leads a Year in Review discussion with David Coletto. David is the Chair and CEO of Abacus Data, a Canadian market and public opinion research agency. Ron and David give an overview of what Canadians think of the political climate and how it relates to the fruit and...
A career in garden management with Beechgrove's Scott Smith
Horticulture Week Podcast - December 14, 2023 14:19 - 19 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multiple and varied career op...
A career in botanical garden management with RBG Edinburgh's Raoul Curtis-Machin
Horticulture Week Podcast - December 08, 2023 09:41 - 18 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multiple and varied career op...
Government Proposals for Packaging Regulations
Produce Talks - December 07, 2023 15:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, Dan Duguay, CPMA’s Sustainability Specialist, provides an update on the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) packaging regulations that aim to significantly reduce plastic packaging for fresh fruits and vegetables. We discuss CPMA and the industry’s response to these pr...
Careers in garden retail with Steve Barrow of British Garden Centres
Horticulture Week Podcast - December 01, 2023 08:46 - 12 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
Careers in garden retail with Liam Beddall of David Austin Roses
Horticulture Week Podcast - November 24, 2023 08:21 - 23 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
Horticultural education options with Lucy Lewis of Sparsholt College
Horticulture Week Podcast - November 17, 2023 09:51 - 19 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
Horticultural education with RHS horticultural courses officer Sarah Hale
Horticulture Week Podcast - November 10, 2023 08:30 - 21 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
CPMA Innovation Zone Company Spotlight
Produce Talks - October 31, 2023 14:42 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we hear from different innovative companies and incubators about their products and how they have benefited from the Innovation Zone at the CPMA Convention and Trade Show. The first part features Mike Mauti interviewing Denise VanderVeen of CleanWorks, a produce innovator, and ...
Produce Talks: CPMA Innovation Zone Company Spotlight
Produce Talks - October 31, 2023 14:42 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we hear from different innovative companies and incubators about their products and how they have benefited from the Innovation Zone at the CPMA Convention and Trade Show. The first part features Mike Mauti interviewing Denise VanderVeen of CleanWorks, a produce innovator, and...
A career in plant breeding - with Simon Crawford of Burpee
Horticulture Week Podcast - October 19, 2023 14:42 - 17 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multiple and varied career op...
A career in plant breeding with Tim Kerley of Kerley & Co
Horticulture Week Podcast - October 19, 2023 13:06 - 17 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multiple and varied career op...
A horticultural destiny and the power of positivity, with Beechcroft Gardens' head gardener and TV presenter, Scott Smith
Horticulture Week Podcast - October 19, 2023 11:32 - 46 minutesHead gardener Scott Smith is one of a growing number of horticulturists-turned TV stars as co-presenter Beechgrove Garden for the BBC. Smith explains how the show works and the challenges of keeping the garden shipshape around the filming schedule for the show, which includes the 'Back to Basic...
The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale, with landscape architect Tom La Dell
Horticulture Week Podcast - October 13, 2023 07:45 - 24 minutesLandscape architect and trustee of Brogdale Collections Tom La Dell discovered very early in his career, a passion for, and conviction in the importance of ecology in landscape architecture schemes. Brought up with artistic background, he was more interested in breeding plants and after a botan...
ICL on Lalguard M52 GR – the new bioinsecticide for vine weevil control
Horticulture Week Podcast - October 06, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutesSam Rivers of ICL talks to HortWeek editor Matt Appleby about new vine weevil control product Lalguard. They discuss how Lalguard works, what its ingredients are, and how to use the product. Lalguard works in an IPM plan and Rivers details how to include the product in integrated pest management...
Produce Talks: CPMA Produce Champion MP Kody Blois
Produce Talks - September 29, 2023 14:37 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode features CPMA President, Ron Lemaire, CPMA Board Member, Kendra Mills of the PEI Potato Board, and the 2023 CPMA Produce Champion, Member of Parliament (MP) Kody Blois, in a discussion about opportunities and key challenges within the fresh produce sector in Canada, and how Members...
CPMA Produce Champion MP Kody Blois
Produce Talks - September 29, 2023 14:37 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode features CPMA President, Ron Lemaire, CPMA Board Member, Kendra Mills of the PEI Potato Board, and the 2023 CPMA Produce Champion, Member of Parliament (MP) Kody Blois, in a discussion about opportunities and key challenges within the fresh produce sector in Canada, and how Members ...
The hidden biodiversity of moss with Dr Neil Bell of RBG Edinburgh
Horticulture Week Podcast - September 29, 2023 08:06 - 36 minutesDr Neil Bell is a bryologist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Much of his research is focused on quantifying, understanding and promoting Scotland’s globally important bryophyte flora, of which mosses are part (along with liverworts and hornworts). This year is a big year for the bryophyt...
Unearthing the female pioneers of professional gardening with Fiona Davison
Horticulture Week Podcast - September 22, 2023 08:08 - 22 minutesThere are a few well-known Edwardian lady gardeners - Gertrude Jekyll, Ellen Wilmot are two. They tended to be wealthy and able to forge their trade in their own large gardens. "Less well known are the professional gardeners and particularly women professional gardeners", says Fiona Davison, th...
Reinventing Borde Hill with Jay Goddard and Harry Baldwin
Horticulture Week Podcast - September 15, 2023 10:51 - 38 minutesThis week Rachael Forsyth speaks to Borde Hill's managing director Jay Goddard, and head of horticulture Harry Baldwin. Borde Hill, a country garden set with in 383 acres of heritage-listed parkland in West Sussex is celebrating its 130th anniversary. Jay is the fifth generation of the Stevens...
Reviving Blenheim Palace gardens to create 'The English Versailles'! - with head gardener Andy Mills
Horticulture Week Podcast - September 08, 2023 10:43 - 30 minutesThis week we welcome Blenheim Palace head gardener Andy Mills to the Horticulture Week Podcast. A year into the role, Andy says he is still getting his bearings with the garden: "A place as diverse as Blenheim takes quite a while to get your head around - ask me the same question in about 3-5 y...
Young Professionals – Growing in Produce
Produce Talks - August 30, 2023 19:38 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we listen to the recording of the Learning Lounge from the recent CPMA’s Convention and Trade Show in Toronto. Moderator Stewart Lapage from Oppy talks with 4 Passion for Produce Alumni. These young professionals talk about their experiences in the produce industry, including go...
Produce Talks: Young Professionals – Growing in Produce
Produce Talks - August 30, 2023 19:38 ★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we listen to the recording of the Learning Lounge from the recent CPMA’s Convention and Trade Show in Toronto. Moderator Stewart Lapage from Oppy talks with 4 Passion for Produce Alumni. These young professionals talk about their experiences in the produce industry, including g...
How comfortable is the outdoor furniture market? with Andy Baxter of Maze
Horticulture Week Podcast - August 30, 2023 17:28 - 13 minutesThe guest on this week's Horticulture Week Podcast is Andy Baxter of outdoor furniture supplier, Maze. Managing director since early 2021, Andy has had to navigate the firm through a particularly tumultuous time with containers prices hitting record highs and lockdowns in China halting supply. ...
Predicting and protecting plant futures with RBG Kew's Richard Barley and Rebecca Lane
Horticulture Week Podcast - August 25, 2023 09:15 - 35 minutesThis week RBG Kew's director of gardens Richard Barley and arboretum supervisor Rebecca Lane join the Horticulture Week Podcast. Kew has changed a lot over the last 10 years, including the introducing the Great Broadwalk Borders, the Children's Garden, Agius Evolution Garden, "reinvigorating" t...
Ben Goldsmith: influential Conservative environmentalist on rewilding, garden centres and policy
Horticulture Week Podcast - August 15, 2023 09:19 - 29 minutesFinancier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith joins the HortWeek podcast. He was a Defra non-executive board member from 2018-22, where he was involved in the Environmental Land Management scheme, the Nature for Climate Fund and the Species Reintroductions task force. Goldsmith is chair of the ...