Plotting To Plate - The people on plot 11 & 5

Today I'm talking with Matt and Deb at Plotting To Plate - The people on plot 11 & 5.

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00:56 You can find them at HomegrownCollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Matt and I think you said Debbie. I might have screwed that up. At Plotting To Plate. Hi guys, how are you? We're good. Thank Very good. Thank you. Did I get the name right? Yes, it's Deb. Okay, good. I blanked for a second. I was like, what is her name?

01:24 Okay.  You guys are in Staffordshire or Staffordshire, England, right?  Yeah, we're in Stafford, which is in Staffordshire. It's a market town,  about 71,000 people. So it's quite a big town these days. It's so medium to large.  And it's in the Midlands. Okay, cool.  And how is the weather in England today?  It's  lovely.

01:52 It's really nice. So if you're wanting to go outside and get some time and sit and have a cup of tea and read books, it's great.  If you're growing vegetables, not so good because  this has been the driest spring that we've had since the records began.  So obviously we have two hats on these.  Oh, no.

02:19 Unseasonably warm and dry for the UK at the moment.  I really wish that Mother Nature would get her act together. Well, just give us more warning about what she's going to be because we've got seedlings and things we need to look after.  So, you know, you need to be able to plan for that, don't you? Yes. And we went through this last year here in my town  because we had six weeks of rain straight in May and June. Yeah.

02:49 And it was bad. Our garden was terrible.  And I've talked about it a lot, so I'm not going to talk about it anymore right now.  tell me about what you guys do, because I  know in England you can either have plants growing where you live or you can have allotments. And I'm not quite sure I understand what allotments mean. So tell me about it.  Yeah. So an allotment  is  a large piece of land.