Meet Eliza Reid, the head grower at a not-for-profit company that is flourishing through its basket delivery service providing locally grown fruit and vegetables unlike the produce in supermarkets. Bristol Greens is run by a small team of people to provide sustainable crops and deliver food boxes to families in crisis.
Eliza, founder of Bristol Greens, worked in wildlife television for the BBC Natural History Unit and Partridge Films. Although she enjoyed making educational programmes about wildlife, she felt flying all over the world was a bit of a contradiction to her environmental beliefs.
"I’d always had an interest in nature and gardening and so decided to take on an allotment in Bower Ashton, and I was just hooked," she said. She left her job in television around 20 years ago and hasn't looked back, having since been head gardener for several estates and farms in the South West including Barley Wood Walled Garden to grow produce for The Better Food Company and setting up the award-winning Wrington Greens.
