A chance to discuss our relationship to the land and the food it can produce with organic grower Claire Ratinon, whose urban veg growing exploits began on a New York rooftop and continued in London’s East End. I’m introduced the concepts of the “delectability of vegetables”, food-as-love, and what it feels like to be a grower of colour.
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As a self employed gardener, you quickly learn to avoid two types of client. Firstly, those who evidently believe that paying for your services is discretionary. And secondly, those who never offer you tea.
Read moreSun catcher
It’s me. I am the sun catcher. I catch the sun. The minute the clouds part and those yearned-for, warming rays illuminate the scene and banish the gloom with the sun’s presence, I’m there. Catching it.
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