In todays show I chat with author & journalist Gabriella Bennett (Instagram @palebackwriter) as she swaps city living for a more rural location and a change of career. After getting Covid earlier this year she decided to leave her job at The Times and embark on a new journey working in the Taybank Hotel’s kitchen garden. Quite the career change! Plus with the summer holidays here, I share five ideas to help occupy children in the garden this summer, plus I chat rhubarb and potatoes. And if that is not enough I’ll also share three must read books to see you through the summer holidays; Rhapsody on Green, (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rhapsody-Green-Obsession-Laughably-Vegetable/dp/0857839470/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=12VTJ90AK5PL5&keywords=rhapsody+in+green+charlotte+mendelson&qid=1662382745&sprefix=rhapsody+on+green%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-1 )The Well Gardened Mind ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Well-Gardened-Mind-Sue-Stuart-Smith/dp/000810073X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2BN4E3TM24O9R&keywords=the+well+gardened+mind&qid=1662382787&sprefix=the+well+%2Caps%2C72&sr=8-1 ) and The Ballast Seed (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1474618189/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1662382827&sr=8-1)