We undervalue food in this country, yet Britain has beautiful food and beautiful growing conditions. It is astonishing the range we can… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I think that most people are aware that it takes so much oil and water to produce what they're eating. But the… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in trying things, so I've eaten witchetty grubs, a mountain frog, ostrich and alligator. I like tongue, I… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
We don't value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much,… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal.… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well. — Monty Don Copy Share
My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely… — Monty Don Copy Share
I love filming. I love the teamwork. It's a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared. — Monty Don Copy Share
The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions for it… — Monty Don Copy Share
People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of… — Monty Don Copy Share
I do wear gloves for things that sting a lot or prick a lot. But I just like to feel with my hands. I… — Monty Don Copy Share
The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50 or 60… — Monty Don Copy Share
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world. — Monty Don Copy Share
The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It's a sort of rough and ready space, I don't film there. — Monty Don Copy Share
I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the… — Monty Don Copy Share
Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was local and… — Monty Don Copy Share
Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace of root. — Monty Don Copy Share
We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even if it's… — Monty Don Copy Share
