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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.

Crab apples

In this episode of The Alternative Kitchen Garden Show we continue our series of botanical basics by looking at photosynthesis – what it is, what it does and how plants use it as a source of energy and chemical building blocks from which they make the other things that they need.

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