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Food Minister Jim Paice salutes “amazing” Edible Garden Show
- Posted June 14, 2011
Jim Paice MP, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food, has described the opening day of The Edible Garden Show as an amazing success. Mr Paice, who officially opened the UK’s first-ever national grow-your-own event today with celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin, toured the exhibition hall to meet exhibitors and afterwards declared: “I think it’s amazing. It’s the first time that this show has been held. It’s the first day. I was here at the very beginning and there were queues of cars coming into the place which is heaving with people. It has obviously struck a chord.” The Minister said he was highly impressed by the wide range of educational grow-your-own projects targeted at children and how people didn’t necessarily… Read More