Olia Hercules on gardening for survival
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,...
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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...
Why Women Grow Podcast Guide
Listen to Why Women Grow, a Leisure podcast by Alice Vincent. Stream 35 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 35 episodesPollyanna Wilkinson on designing a life-proof garden
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...
Milli Proust on building a garden
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,...
India Knight on making home in a garden
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...
Season 7: trailer
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 on how landscape shapes us
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...
Isabella Tree on rewilding a garden
Today we are at the Knepp Estate - a huge rewilding project across 3500 acres of land, undertaken by the writer and conservationist Isabella...
Michelle Ogundehin on finding home
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...
Beyond the Garden: new season trailer
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...
Jeany Cronk on ripping up the rule book
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...
Louise Pascal on gardening in a time of crisis
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...
Jamie Beck on starting a new life in Provence
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...
The French Life: new season trailer
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...
Jo Thompson and Kali Hamerton-Stove on strong beauty
Few Chelsea Flower Show gardens are designed by women. Fewer Chelsea Flower Show show gardens are created by the people they are intended fo...
Ula Maria on making space for loss
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 on inheritance in the garden
Sarah Price is a landscape gardener who’s always seemed to exist on another plane. Her designs work with the environment to create something...
The Designers: new season trailer
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...
Hannah Read on making music through the landscape
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...
Manon Awst on being peat compatible
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...
The Land Gardeners on the power of soil
As Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy explain in our first Earthly Matters episode, people come for the flowers but they stay for the...
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