Community Growing for Health & Wellbeing, with Elinor Leslie (RBGE) (Plants and Our Health #3)

Not Another Science Podcast

Where would we be without the plants that feed us? Why should we grow our own, and grow them together? This week on Plants & Our Health, we dive into the delicious new theme of ‘Plants on our Plates’ with Elinor Leslie, Community Gardener at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Elinor works on the Edible Gardening Project, assisting diverse groups with horticultural interests to engage in growing their own fruit and vegetables. As Elinor stresses however, the produce is not the only goal or joy of community growing. Wonderful, unexpected things happen when people toil at the soil over a long growing season.

To learn more about the Edible Gardening Project or how you could start growing with your community, check out @EdibleGarden1 on Twitter. You can also email Elinor at [e-mail].

Music is Wallpaper by Kevin MacLeod (Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4604-wallpaper; License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

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