Bob Flowerdew is an

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and television and radio presenter. He is a regular panel member of

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's ''

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''. He has nearly an acre of garden in

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, where he lives with his wife, Vonetta, a care worker, and their twins, Italia and Malachi. He is known as one of Britain's leading organic gardeners. He is the son of a farmer and his family have been working the land in

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since before the time of the

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. After graduating in financial management, he worked his way around

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and

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, becoming fascinated by the different gardening and farming methods, returning to pick grapes with one French family for 12 successive years. Flowerdew runs a consultancy landscape service, is president of the

group of the

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and also teaches at an agricultural college. He has worked in

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, presenting the

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series ''Muck and Magic'', and appeared on

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's ''Grow Your Own Greens'', on which he was the

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expert. He is a long-serving member of the panel of BBC Radio 4's "Gardener's Question Time." He writes regularly for a gardening blog, Under Cover with Bob Flowerdew. He is the patron of Waveney Foodbank, a local charity that provides emergency food for those in crisis. He has written books on gardening including: *2008 Grow your Own, Eat your Own: Bob Flowerdew's Guide to Making the Most of your Garden Produce *2007 Going Organic: The Good Gardener's Guide to Getting it Right *2007 Gourmet Gardener: Everything You Need to Know to Grow and Prepare the Very Finest of Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables *2004 The No-Work Garden: Getting the Most Out of Your Garden for the Least Amount of Work *1998 Bob Flowerdew's Organic Bible *1995 Bob Flowerdew's Complete Fruit Book *1995 Bob Flowerdew's Complete Book of Companion Gardening *1993 The Organic Gardener

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