Alan & Jackie Gear

Known as 'the greenest couple in England', Alan Gear and Jackie Gear have been at the heart of the organic gardening movement for over 30 years. They are expert green thumbs. Their unique personal/historical memoir - ORGANIC GARDENING: THE WHOLE STORY - traces the movement's tumultuous development from the austerity of the 1940s, through ridicule and obsession, to its status today. 

They are also the authors of what is one of the most useful 'grow your own' gardening books available, GROW YOUR OWN FRUIT AND VEG (Thornhill Books, 2014), which provides help with choosing tools, planning the plot, selecting what to grow, combatting pests, and the all-important harvesting and preserving of your crops. 

'The driving force behind the largest organic gardening organisation in Europe…an extraordinary couple' Monty Don

'Jackie's professionalism and bubbling enthusiasm…has changed hearts and minds' HRH The Prince of Wales

'Alan and Jackie made growing your own organic fruit and vegetables popular' Raymond Blanc, OBE