‘Brought up on a farm, my fascination with  the countryside has never left me.  When I was a teenager, I wanted to save the world!  I decided that by going into the media I might be able to help to do my bit. I’ve moved a long way from my initial idealism, but have never lost my deep felt roots in the land and all its associations.’

Rebecca ...

• was the first Environment Correspondent on television in Britain, based at HTV
  
  
• produced and presented Farming Today on Radio 4
  
  
• presented many gardening programmes including Garden Club and Loads More Muck and Magic (the organic gardening programme) on Channel 4;  Roots and Shoots on Discovery Channel,
  
  
• produced and directed a range of tv programmes including All Gardens Great and Small on HTV and Discovery, Green for Danger documentary on itvWest, The Hidden Garden of Hestercombe on HTV
  
  
• writes widely for publications including: Kitchen Garden, BBC Gardeners World Magazine, English Garden  Magazine, column in Amateur Gardening Magazine ‘Grow It, Cook It Eat It’
  
  
• ran the first local food group in Britain, The Taste of Somerset, set up originally by the National Farmers Union
  
  
• broadcasts regularly on BBC Somerset in her own ‘Grow It, Cook It, Eat It’ series
  
  
• gives talks and lectures on gardens, television and gardening programmes, and on wildlife gardening
  
  
• Rebecca's garden is open for tours and talks
  
  
• Pow Productions is the Public Relations company run by Rebecca
  
  

Personal Profile Stuff:  My special things....

• growing home grow produce: vegetables, fruit, flowers, and all the mini-small holding stuff including hens, sheep and pigs. 
  
  
• encouraging wildlife in my garden and in the wider countryside.  I am a trustee of the Somerset Wildlife Trust and this is really important to me.
  
  
• tennis
  
  
• dark chocolate (80% + cocoa),
  
  
• really good tea made from tea leaves!
  
  
• The Archers
  
  
• my family