February 12, 2025 • 6 mins
The fabulous Johanna Griggs joins Jonesy & Amanda ahead of the new season of Better Homes And Gardens.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do you believe it betterheumes and Gardens is back, but
thirty first season?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
So is that thirty one years?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It must be?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And for the last twenty years, Joe Griggs has been
holding it all together.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
What a big deal?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
She joins us. Now Joe Griggs, Hi.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Hello, lovely to chat to you both. It's actually thirty
second season on the thirty first year and this year
with my twenty first Kay had one year early on
that two.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Seasons, So is this your twenty first year?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yeah, that's her. So it's it's such a such a
beautiful show to work on it. It just keeps powering on.
It's unreal.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Do you remember your first episode? What did you do?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
God, don't actually remember specifically? What we think? I think
it'd be welcome get everyone together one when they could
when Nani decided to go back to acting, they sort
of said to me, oh, look, we've done a whole
lot of research and we think if we give the
show a bit of a refresh, it might last for
another fifteen years. And it was like we had all
lots of discussions, like I just want to make sure
we do more than just do links and can I
(01:04):
actually get hands on and can't be involved, Can I
expand what we're doing and do lots of sustainable stories
and architects stories. And they were so open to everything,
and so they kind of change the show up a
little bit from what it had traditionally been. And here
we are all these years later and it's still going strong.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Are there moments in your life like will you be
cooking a dish or doing something in the garden?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
We think hang on. I learned this on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I would say that that is pretty much every day
of my life. Whether it's you know, we run a
construction coming my husband and I, so whether it's the
home designs that we're doing, I can the current home
that we've just designed. I think there's about the influence
of six different homes and architects where I have literally
seen what they've done and gone, well, we could incorporate
that in. Or whether it's cooking meals, it's constantly the chefs,
(01:51):
so I'm picking their brains or the exposure that you
get to them. Or I did a meal the other night,
the upcoming story, which I think everyone on our crew
has now cooked to miss last week because it was
so simple and fantastic and easy, or whether it's home organization,
or whether it's in my veggie patch, or whether it's
doing something with my bees, or about sustainability and recycling.
I mean the influence you really do live the show.
(02:14):
It's not just something that you go to work and
you read a script. You're actually talking to passionate people
and you're learning from them constantly, and I think that
is the secret to the show's successes. It's authenticity.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Amanda's now primary producer. She's got bees, You've got bets.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I've got Australian native stingless bees.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
A native bee.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, and we just got the honey from them last week.
It tastes like like the cure or like a dessert.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
One really tangy. And yeah, it's very tangy. And as
there were bees, they work so hard to get such
a small amount of honey. It's a very very different
sort of honey to to a European bee honey, which
is obviously very sweet and you get copious amounts of it.
But the beautiful thing with your native bees you don't
have to consider barowamite, and you know that they're stingless.
(03:00):
You're a great job pollinating, so both of them work
in harmony.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Are you saying that you have real bees?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
No, no, Joe saying that you you've got real bees
that make a lot of honey.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Look, I do I have European bees in the garden.
We have a lot of native bees. So everyone has
this idea only have one or the other, but they
actually work in harmony. I mean, I look at so
many different varieties of navy bees. You know, whether you
have your little tiny ones or you have blue banded beef.
You're surrounded by them constantly in the garden, and they
(03:33):
are right alongside your European bees.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Right, So you've got three types of them.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's competitive on my behalf.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Lula jo and agreed.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
She's got she's got three kinds of bees, and she's
got a veggie patchways your veggie patch.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Can I ask you this?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Do your colleagues sometimes get annoyed with you? Because this
is to be with me in the living room. I
text Miguel mid Meal to say, what happens here? I've
stuffed this up?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Text barrier Chris. Do they regret you having their numbers? I?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Look, I think they are very used to it. Put
it I've warmed them down. They they they actually are
very very patient with me. So whether it's something in
the garden or whether it's something in the kitchen, they
are all absolutely you know, as I know, your team
was very giving with their time and their knowledge, and
I think that comes from the fact that that's what
they all do for a living, and they're really passionate
(04:20):
about it as well, So I don't mind sharing me.
That's a whole reason they're they're on the show.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And I felt I could never give anything in return.
Maybe I could do a radio time call or something
we do nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Well, you could provide a thimbleful of honey for everyone
to enjoy from your.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
From your I do drop off products for the offer.
So I like that. And this week it was green
chili jam and pickle cucumbers and posada, and next week
it will be mango chutney and mixed very jam.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So and you've got well, that's made me feel very.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yes, my husband is spending a lot of time on Evaccivator.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
How many what have you got a new place? Can
we just talk about your plants from a minute. I'm
not talking about those garden he plans. I'm talking planned equipment.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What have you got.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
We've only got an excavator and a tractor, and to
be honest, the excavator is at a tip truck. I've
got a truck driving license, so we've got a tip truck.
And at the moment, all our time that the farmer's
basically spent with Todd on his excavator putting leaves into
the truck, and then I take it away and stump
at the store the back fill down the track. So
(05:27):
it is we just play with it all day, every day.
But it's very satisfying and great fun.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
You could sell tickets. I'm happy to buy one second round.
I just love playing with escavators and tip trucks. I
love that stuff. When this fails, that's what I'm going
to do.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Give yourself an hour next year I'll be around your house.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Our Better Homes of Gardens return seven o'clock tomorrow, seven
and seven plus Joe Griggs.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's always a treat.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It is always great fun. And enjoy those bees, Amanda,
Thank you, Joe.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I will we have no I do? I got a
little jar of it. Give me a break. Thank you, Joe.
Always nice to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's four to eight Joanna Griggs. They're coming up next.
Instagram is here. You buy a lot of honey with
two thousand dollars, probably get a good.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Deal from Johanna.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
She's got a surplus.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I want the Pisata's like.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
She's like America and you're like Australia as far as
she's got surplus honey.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Just as a you know, a comparing Brenda.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You're killing me. Shut your neck anyway. You are exhausting today.
You are completely exhausting.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Really what for many.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Other days it's so different? Or actually every day you're
completely exhausting.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You know what's happened. You've been on holidays, you just
you're not used to me again.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I've been back a month
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do you believe it betterheumes and Gardens is back, but
thirty first season?
Speaker 1 (00:07):
So is that thirty one years?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It must be?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And for the last twenty years, Joe Griggs has been
holding it all together.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
What a big deal?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
She joins us. Now Joe Griggs, Hi.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Hello, lovely to chat to you both. It's actually thirty
second season on the thirty first year and this year
with my twenty first Kay had one year early on
that two.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Seasons, So is this your twenty first year?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yeah, that's her. So it's it's such a such a
beautiful show to work on it. It just keeps powering on.
It's unreal.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Do you remember your first episode? What did you do?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
God, don't actually remember specifically? What we think? I think
it'd be welcome get everyone together one when they could
when Nani decided to go back to acting, they sort
of said to me, oh, look, we've done a whole
lot of research and we think if we give the
show a bit of a refresh, it might last for
another fifteen years. And it was like we had all
lots of discussions, like I just want to make sure
we do more than just do links and can I
(01:04):
actually get hands on and can't be involved, Can I
expand what we're doing and do lots of sustainable stories
and architects stories. And they were so open to everything,
and so they kind of change the show up a
little bit from what it had traditionally been. And here
we are all these years later and it's still going strong.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Are there moments in your life like will you be
cooking a dish or doing something in the garden?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
We think hang on. I learned this on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I would say that that is pretty much every day
of my life. Whether it's you know, we run a
construction coming my husband and I, so whether it's the
home designs that we're doing, I can the current home
that we've just designed. I think there's about the influence
of six different homes and architects where I have literally
seen what they've done and gone, well, we could incorporate
that in. Or whether it's cooking meals, it's constantly the chefs,
(01:51):
so I'm picking their brains or the exposure that you
get to them. Or I did a meal the other night,
the upcoming story, which I think everyone on our crew
has now cooked to miss last week because it was
so simple and fantastic and easy, or whether it's home organization,
or whether it's in my veggie patch, or whether it's
doing something with my bees, or about sustainability and recycling.
I mean the influence you really do live the show.
(02:14):
It's not just something that you go to work and
you read a script. You're actually talking to passionate people
and you're learning from them constantly, and I think that
is the secret to the show's successes. It's authenticity.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Amanda's now primary producer. She's got bees, You've got bets.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I've got Australian native stingless bees.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
A native bee.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, and we just got the honey from them last week.
It tastes like like the cure or like a dessert.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
One really tangy. And yeah, it's very tangy. And as
there were bees, they work so hard to get such
a small amount of honey. It's a very very different
sort of honey to to a European bee honey, which
is obviously very sweet and you get copious amounts of it.
But the beautiful thing with your native bees you don't
have to consider barowamite, and you know that they're stingless.
(03:00):
You're a great job pollinating, so both of them work
in harmony.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Are you saying that you have real bees?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
No, no, Joe saying that you you've got real bees
that make a lot of honey.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Look, I do I have European bees in the garden.
We have a lot of native bees. So everyone has
this idea only have one or the other, but they
actually work in harmony. I mean, I look at so
many different varieties of navy bees. You know, whether you
have your little tiny ones or you have blue banded beef.
You're surrounded by them constantly in the garden, and they
(03:33):
are right alongside your European bees.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Right, So you've got three types of them.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
It's competitive on my behalf.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Lula jo and agreed.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
She's got she's got three kinds of bees, and she's
got a veggie patchways your veggie patch.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Can I ask you this?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Do your colleagues sometimes get annoyed with you? Because this
is to be with me in the living room. I
text Miguel mid Meal to say, what happens here? I've
stuffed this up?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Text barrier Chris. Do they regret you having their numbers? I?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Look, I think they are very used to it. Put
it I've warmed them down. They they they actually are
very very patient with me. So whether it's something in
the garden or whether it's something in the kitchen, they
are all absolutely you know, as I know, your team
was very giving with their time and their knowledge, and
I think that comes from the fact that that's what
they all do for a living, and they're really passionate
(04:20):
about it as well, So I don't mind sharing me.
That's a whole reason they're they're on the show.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And I felt I could never give anything in return.
Maybe I could do a radio time call or something
we do nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Well, you could provide a thimbleful of honey for everyone
to enjoy from your.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
From your I do drop off products for the offer.
So I like that. And this week it was green
chili jam and pickle cucumbers and posada, and next week
it will be mango chutney and mixed very jam.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So and you've got well, that's made me feel very.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yes, my husband is spending a lot of time on Evaccivator.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
How many what have you got a new place? Can
we just talk about your plants from a minute. I'm
not talking about those garden he plans. I'm talking planned equipment.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What have you got.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
We've only got an excavator and a tractor, and to
be honest, the excavator is at a tip truck. I've
got a truck driving license, so we've got a tip truck.
And at the moment, all our time that the farmer's
basically spent with Todd on his excavator putting leaves into
the truck, and then I take it away and stump
at the store the back fill down the track. So
(05:27):
it is we just play with it all day, every day.
But it's very satisfying and great fun.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
You could sell tickets. I'm happy to buy one second round.
I just love playing with escavators and tip trucks. I
love that stuff. When this fails, that's what I'm going
to do.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Give yourself an hour next year I'll be around your house.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Our Better Homes of Gardens return seven o'clock tomorrow, seven
and seven plus Joe Griggs.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's always a treat.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
It is always great fun. And enjoy those bees, Amanda,
Thank you, Joe.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I will we have no I do? I got a
little jar of it. Give me a break. Thank you, Joe.
Always nice to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's four to eight Joanna Griggs. They're coming up next.
Instagram is here. You buy a lot of honey with
two thousand dollars, probably get a good.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Deal from Johanna.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
She's got a surplus.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I want the Pisata's like.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
She's like America and you're like Australia as far as
she's got surplus honey.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Just as a you know, a comparing Brenda.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You're killing me. Shut your neck anyway. You are exhausting today.
You are completely exhausting.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Really what for many.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Other days it's so different? Or actually every day you're
completely exhausting.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You know what's happened. You've been on holidays, you just
you're not used to me again.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I've been back a month
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