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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
Strawberries are popular throughout the world – this is a public display in Helsinki, Finland
We’re in the middle of Wimbleldon and the strawberries and cream season here in the UK. In this episode I’m looking into the history of our modern strawberry. Fragaria x ananassa, which was bred from the Virginia Scarlets F. virginiana and the Chilean beach strawberry F. chiloensis. Then I’m off on a round-up of more unusual strawberry varieties, including the wild/ alpine strawberry F. vesca, the green strawberry F. viridis and the musk strawberry F. moschata.
And as if that weren’t enough, I have a look at other edible plants with ‘strawberry’ in the name, do a quick round up of recent events in the chicken run and then make way for our AKG correspondents Robb and Jacqui from the Sustainable Living blog who have settled into their new sustainable home in Hickory, North Carolina.
If you’re interested in becoming an Alternative Kitchen Garden Correspondent then read the FAQ, and if you grow unusual edibles then my Vegetable Explorer questionnaire is over on the blog.
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