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James Wong: Homegrown Revolution Tour Review Part 1

Last week my better half and I went to a talk held at Wiltshire College, Lackham. The talk was one stop of many in James Wong's Homegrown Revolution Tour entitled 'Grow Your Own Way'. I'll run through a very brief summary of the talk and finish with what you can do next to ensure you're in the right position to advance your career (future or present) in horticulture. If you can't get to a talk, then it has very kindly been made available by University College Cork. The talk starts around 20 minutes in and is available here.

James conceived the idea for this talk on the back of an article in Horticulture Week (possibly this) and a press release from the RHS (possibly this) about horticulture being at crisis point with a real lack of people studying horticulture and botany.
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