Robert Milne has 38 years' experience of vegetable gardening, at first for himself and family and then as a professional in a number of walled gardens.

He graduated from the University of Reading as a mature student with a degree in soil science. He has worked in Iceland and Norway on a kitchen garden project and in 2012 he set up The Food Gardens in Shropshire.

Robert is a dogged campaigner for food gardening to be brought into the National Curriculum.