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Alex Smith

Content Creator

Email:

info@alexgrowsfood.com

Based In:

Cambridge
United Kingdom

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I create high-production, engaging and unique gardening videos that help viewers learn more about growing food from seed using mainly organic methods. My videos can be broadly classified into three styles of content, each with their own production requirements, level of integration and long-lasting impact on the audience.

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A Bit About Me

A PhD in physics and a few years working in software isn’t the typical CV for a gardening content creator. But with a love of the outdoors and an interest in traditional skills, starting a smallholding naturally found itself on the five-year plan after leaving university. 

A few months afterwards I moved into a small patio garden just two weeks later the pandemic hit. Like many people, I got my first real taste of gardening during this time growing sunflowers and pumpkins and in 2021 I went into full production mode – growing sweetcorn and peppers in partial shade and producing more runner beans than I could eat. I turned a grey, concrete garden into something truly wonderful.

And I was hooked…

In 2022 I moved into a much larger garden and within a month I had turned the lawn into a productive growing space and grew hundreds of kilograms of food. In 2023, I wanted to be even more ambitious and decided to share my journey on YouTube.