Growing Greener: Growing food sustainably

Arit discusses the future of our food – and how gardeners can be at the heart of the solutions around air miles and carbon footprint – with guest, Professor Tim Lang, Garden Organic President, gardener, one-time hill farmer and a passionate champion of growing our own food.

Listen now to this fascinating discussion between Arit Anderson and Professor Tim Lang:

• Find out more about our Growing Greener podcast series

About our guest

Professor Tim Lang is Professor Emeritus of Food Policy at City University London, founding its Centre for Food Policy in 1994. After a PhD in social psychology at Leeds University, he became a hill farmer in the 1970s in the Forest of Bowland, Lancs, which shifted his attention to food policy, where it has been ever since.

He has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation and a special advisor to four House of Commons Select Committee inquiries. He is President of Garden Organic, and his latest book is Feeding Britain: Our Food problems and How to Fix Them (Penguin)

Find out more:

• About Professor Tim Lang
• Tim's book: Feeding Britain
• Garden Organic
• Tim on self-sufficiency
• Tim's talk on Lessons for Food Policy, Eat Forum
• Vegetable crops for beginners
• How to create a herb garden
• How to make a balcony garden

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