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Apr 21, 2026 24 min

The Chair Farmer

from Our Plant Stories

Gavin Munro describes himself as a chair farmer. In his orchard he grows trees and meticulously shapes them into chairs. As the trees grow, their branches are carefully trained, pruned and grafted, gently guided to form a back, seat and four legs. Fullgrown is the project and passion of Gavin and his wife Alice and he takes us on a tour of the orchard and explains how not every tree wants to be a chair. One of their chairs will be part of the Plant Heritage Missing Collector garden at this year's prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower show. Who will sit on it? Do get all NEW episodes of this podcast in your inbox signup for the newsletter on the Our Plant Stories website. You can support this independent podcast through Buy Me a Coffee. Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by Sally Flatman The music is Fade to Black by Howard Levy This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

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