What role does horticulture play in our wellbeing?  Guy Barter Chief Horticulturalist at RHS Wisley, joins us with top tips on Focussing on what Matters to him:  Horticulture & Wellbeing.

After an early career as microbiologist he studied Horticulture at Bath University. After working in the horticultural industry Guy ran the plant trials at the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley.   There followed three years as a journalist for Gardening Which?, before returning to the Royal Horticultural Society to run the members’ gardening advice service for 18 years, which answers about 90,000 gardening questions per year.

This is the final episode of series 1 of Focus On What Matters. Join us in 2022 for another series of podcasts with Deborah and Fabrizio.

Guy can be contacted via the RHS Wisley website or on facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/rhshome

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Our 2nd part of our podcast with Masterchef  Gary MacLean talking about the role of creativity in learning .  Gary shares where he gets inspiration for his famous Haggis burgers and how working for free at an early age helped him get inspiration from unexpected places.    “There are no bad mistakes!”….. he’s a chef and educator who wants us to focus on what matters to him… learning and creativity.

Gary has spent a lot of time working in the media being a regular on TV, radio and printed press and has also published his first book ‘Kitchen Essentials: The Joy of Home Cooking’.  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Essentials-Joy-Home-Cooking/dp/1785301802

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What has enabled one of the UK’s top chef and food educators to continuously stay at the top of his game?  Masterchef Gary MacLean wants us to Focus on What Matters to him:  Being a Lifelong Learner. Gary was born in Glasgow and spent his early career working in hotels and then became Head Chef of a small fine dining restaurant.  In a notoriously hardworking and competitive profession he has taken creativity to another level winning 2016 BBC MasterChef: The Professionals Champion, after taking on 47 other professional chefs in the pursuit of gastronomic glory.   Since winning Gary has had appearances all over the UK to opening pop up restaurants and events all over the world from New York to Singapore, from Hollywood to India and from Colombia to Cuba.  Gary has also spent a lot of time working in the media being a regular on TV, radio and printed press and has also published his first book ‘Kitchen Essentials: The Joy of Home Cooking’.  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Essentials-Joy-Home-Cooking/dp/1785301802

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