Paul Thomas - Managing Director
Paul Thomas is Managing Director for Mycorrhizal Systems Ltd. He says, "Mycorrhizal Systems grows a type of fungus called truffles, so we set up plantations across the world to grow this fungus... (I'm)...
Rachel Elder - Agricultural Lecturer
Rachel Elder is an agricultural lecturer and also runs a farm part time. She says, "My day starts at six o'clock, I get up and check the stock and feed the stock. I leave for work at seven-thirty, it's...
Anne-Marie Grant - Floristry Lecturer
Anne-Marie Grant is a floristry lecturer at CAFRE. She trained in horticulture and went to work as a teacher of young offenders before having children and re-training in floristry. She says, "I didn't...
Andy Murdoch - Senior Lecturer
Andy Murdoch is the senior lecturer in horticulture at CAFRE. He comes from a long line of dairy farmers, but decided to break with family tradition in order to go into horticulture. Although this was...
Jane Turner - Senior Gardener
Jane Turner is a Senior Gardener at a National Trust property. She loved helping her grandad in the garden during her school holidays. So when she recovered from cancer eleven years ago, and was thinking...
Stuart Chappell - Countryside Manager
Stuart Chappell is Countryside Manager of a National Trust estate. He loved the countryside ever since he was a boy, when he spent his holidays on the farm where his grandad worked. He tried office work...
Mark Bull - Estate Warden
Mark Bull is a National Trust Warden on an estate in the Peak District. Sometimes he wonders whether he should have gone to university, but he's enjoyed this job for 25 years, so unless he suddenly gets...
Jason Ikavnieks - Events, Maintenance & Grounds
Jason Ikavnieks looks after events, maintenance and the grounds for Wood Green Animal Shelters. "I've had quite a few jobs because I went for the money. But now I realise that this is the job that I...
Tom Sadler - Research Assistant
Tom Sadler works at Humber VHB as a Research Assistant. He does experiments to find better crops. "I've never had any idea what I wanna do in life and pretty much still don't. I've had rubbish jobs...
Natasha Hookham - Senior Technical Manager
Natasha Hookham is a Senior Technical Manager growing herbs. "There's always a challenge in fresh produce. There isn't a day that's the same". The weather, strikes and illegal immigrants provide changing...
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