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'These rich and intimate conversations offer new perspectives on our interactions with nature' - The FT I’m Alice Vincent and I’ve been on a quest to understand why women go to ground when t...

For many around the world right now, the green spaces that hold so many memories are caught in conflict. This is the case for the activist,...

With a clutch of medals from RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court flower shows, a bestselling garden design book and more than half a million socia...

When you become known for your garden - and what you grow there - what does it mean to up peasticks and move? Milli Proust is a gardener,...

There’s a school of thought that believes the garden to be an extra room of the house - albeit, outside. If that’s the case, then India Knig...

It's been a bleak old winter, but spring is upon us and with it comes a brand new season of the Why Women Grow podcast. This Spring, we’re e...

Daisy Johnson made headlines when she became the youngest person ever shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018, when she was 27. But, as she...

Today we are at the Knepp Estate - a huge rewilding project across 3500 acres of land, undertaken by the writer and conservationist Isabella...

What is it that makes a home? Interior design may not seem the first port of call to consider when we think about our gardens, but Michelle...

Leaves are falling, the sunsets are glowing, and we’re taking every moment we can to reflect here on the Why Women Grow podcast. This autumn...

When Jeany Cronk moved her young family from London to the south of France, she did so on a mission to not only make delicious wine, but sha...

What does it mean to be split between two places? Where we come from, and where we work? For actor Louise Pascal, putting on a character is...

It’s easy to dream of building a whole new life, but it’s quite another to actually do it. Jamie Beck is a woman who knows - the American ar...

Summer is upon us - and the Why Women Grow podcast has gone on tour in Provence. Among the lavender fields, chateaux, rose gardens and town...

Few Chelsea Flower Show gardens are designed by women. Fewer Chelsea Flower Show show gardens are created by the people they are intended fo...

Some people move house for the location, some people move for the fireplaces: for Ula Maria, it was a neglected, overgrown garden in South L...

Sarah Price is a landscape gardener who’s always seemed to exist on another plane. Her designs work with the environment to create something...

It’s the biggest gardening show on earth - and this spring, the Why Women Grow podcast is finding out what it’s really like to be a female d...

How to capture the sound of something humans can’t hear? How to make a song about a mushroom? That was the challenge put to Scottish musicia...

Today we are on an adventure - to the sticky, secret depths of Wales’s peatlands. This intriguing landscape could be the answer to the clima...

As Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy explain in our first Earthly Matters episode, people come for the flowers but they stay for the...

Introducing Earthly Matters A new season of Why Women Grow is coming soon - and this time, we’re getting dirty. After two years of celebrati...

Floral designer and broadcaster Hazel Gardiner has been part of the Why Women Grow sisterhood long before we hit record: she was the first w...

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She’s a rare exa...

Chef and bestselling author Anna Jones has inspired the way hundreds of thousands of people cook for years - and we were delighted to be inv...

Why Women Grow is back with a new mini series, featuring three women who have fundamentally changed how I think and live. This summer's mini...

Bonus episode: Writer and novelist Jamaica Kincaid redefined garden writing with books such as My Garden (Book) and Among Flowers, as well a...

The creative mind behind Hill House Vintage and author of Hill House Living , Paula Sutton is a stylist, writer and - perhaps most of all -...

Margaret Howell has been designing men’s and womenswear for five decades, prioritising understated quality over trends: she makes beautiful...

One simple concept, a million cookbooks sold: Rukmini Iyer’s Roasting Tin recipe books have transformed dinner times around the country. But...

Sally Vickers is a Jungian psychotherapist and the author of books such as Miss Garnet's Angel , The Other Side of You and, most recently, T...

If you’ve ever bought plants or seeds online, or through mail order, you’ve probably encountered Sarah Raven . The gardener, writer and teac...

Claire Ratinon is a food-grower, speaker and writer. In 2022, she released Unearthed , a powerful memoir about understanding what it is to b...

Poppy Okotcha describes herself as an ecological home grower working to inspire reconnection to the land and the living world through the st...

Introducing the line-up for the first season of Why Women Grow: writer Claire Ratinon designer Margaret Howell chef Rukmini Iyer gardening g...

The first listen of the forthcoming Why Women Grow podcast, launching February 2023 from Alice Vincent. This podcast is inspired by my book,...