Back in 2005 we launched the Wiggly Podcast - the idea was that it was like The Archers… BUT real!
"Here's a challenge for you: Go to iTunes and do a search for the word "gardening" in its podcast section.
It isn't pretty. You'll find a dozen or so local radio or television garden experts presenting weekly tips. A few horticultural-supply companies have begun producing a podcast to advertise their products. And there are a couple of lone gardeners broadcasting musings into cyberspace.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. But do any of us really want to take up precious space on our iPods with a tip from a Nebraska gardener on growing tomatoes? Where's the passion? Where's the controversy? Where's the fun?
Heather Gorringe, owner of an agricultural enterprise called Wiggly Wigglers, sits in her living room every week and chats up a lively cast of farmers, gardeners, naturalists and other hangers-on. What makes this podcast worth listening to is that these people have ideas and opinions. They rant. They tease. They stir things up. I may not have much to say on the Great English Hedgerow Debate that has raged over the Wiggly Wigglers airwaves recently, but I love listening in."