In this episode I speak with the wonderful Poppy Okotcha – a qualified permaculture designer based in Devon.

She’s an ecological home grower, forager and home cook passionate about ecological & local community food systems. Part of the Grow Share Collective, she tends a 5 x 30 m edible and medicinal forest garden next to her home. She loves creating, tending and learning from edible and medicinal spaces that are sustainable, nourishing, beautiful and useful and wild.

Poppy is a sought after speaker at events and festivals and writes widely about her love of plants and gardening – featured on BBC Gardeners World and a co-host of the Great Garden Revolution on Channel 4. She also has an online course about wild gardening.

Coming from a modelling background as a rising star in the London Fashion scene – on the catwalk with the likes of Vivienne Westwood – she has presence and popularity that I am delighted she is bringing to the world of permaculture!