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Poppy Okotcha: A Wilder Way
Season 24 · Episode 28

Poppy Okotcha: A Wilder Way

How Gardens Grow Us

Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith · Gilly Smith

April 24, 202530m 8s

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Show Notes

This week, we’re digging deep – culturally and politically - into our connection with the land in Poppy Okotcha’s A Wilder Way, how gardens grow us.


Poppy is this year’s winner of the Jane Grigson Trust Sous Chef Award for New Food Writers for her memoir – and very practical handbook – about putting down roots and growing a garden while reconnecting with Mother Earth’s infinite power to restore life.


Her beautiful book is a wonderful wake up call to remind us of what’s under our feet, threaded through with fables and folklore from her Nigerian Igbo and British cultures. 


Pop over to Gilly's Substack for Extra Bites of Poppy.


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