Lucy Chamberlain is the daughter of smallholders and has been growing her own food for over 30 years. She wrote the RHS Step by Step Veg Patch in 2012 (over 100K copies sold to date) and has now written the RHS Grow Food Anywhere (2025). She is a podcaster (Talking Heads gardening podcast), broadcaster (BBC Essex), writer (Amateur Gardening) and professional gardener.