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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe it betterheumes and Gardens is back, but

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Speaker 2: thirty first season?

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Speaker 1: So is that thirty one years?

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Speaker 3: It must be?

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Speaker 2: And for the last twenty years, Joe Griggs has been

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Speaker 2: holding it all together.

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Speaker 1: What a big deal?

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Speaker 3: She joins us. Now Joe Griggs, Hi.

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Speaker 4: Hello, lovely to chat to you both. It's actually thirty

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Speaker 4: second season on the thirty first year and this year

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Speaker 4: with my twenty first Kay had one year early on

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Speaker 4: that two.

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Speaker 3: Seasons, So is this your twenty first year?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's her. So it's it's such a such a

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Speaker 4: beautiful show to work on it. It just keeps powering on.

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Speaker 4: It's unreal.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember your first episode? What did you do?

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Speaker 2: Ah?

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Speaker 4: God, don't actually remember specifically? What we think? I think

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Speaker 4: it'd be welcome get everyone together one when they could

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Speaker 4: when Nani decided to go back to acting, they sort

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Speaker 4: of said to me, oh, look, we've done a whole

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Speaker 4: lot of research and we think if we give the

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Speaker 4: show a bit of a refresh, it might last for

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Speaker 4: another fifteen years. And it was like we had all

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Speaker 4: lots of discussions, like I just want to make sure

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Speaker 4: we do more than just do links and can I

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Speaker 4: actually get hands on and can't be involved, Can I

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Speaker 4: expand what we're doing and do lots of sustainable stories

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Speaker 4: and architects stories. And they were so open to everything,

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Speaker 4: and so they kind of change the show up a

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Speaker 4: little bit from what it had traditionally been. And here

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Speaker 4: we are all these years later and it's still going strong.

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Speaker 2: Are there moments in your life like will you be

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Speaker 2: cooking a dish or doing something in the garden?

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Speaker 3: We think hang on. I learned this on the show.

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Speaker 4: I would say that that is pretty much every day

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Speaker 4: of my life. Whether it's you know, we run a

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Speaker 4: construction coming my husband and I, so whether it's the

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Speaker 4: home designs that we're doing, I can the current home

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Speaker 4: that we've just designed. I think there's about the influence

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Speaker 4: of six different homes and architects where I have literally

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Speaker 4: seen what they've done and gone, well, we could incorporate

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Speaker 4: that in. Or whether it's cooking meals, it's constantly the chefs,

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Speaker 4: so I'm picking their brains or the exposure that you

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Speaker 4: get to them. Or I did a meal the other night,

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Speaker 4: the upcoming story, which I think everyone on our crew

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Speaker 4: has now cooked to miss last week because it was

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Speaker 4: so simple and fantastic and easy, or whether it's home organization,

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Speaker 4: or whether it's in my veggie patch, or whether it's

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Speaker 4: doing something with my bees, or about sustainability and recycling.

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Speaker 4: I mean the influence you really do live the show.

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Speaker 4: It's not just something that you go to work and

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Speaker 4: you read a script. You're actually talking to passionate people

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Speaker 4: and you're learning from them constantly, and I think that

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Speaker 4: is the secret to the show's successes. It's authenticity.

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Speaker 5: Amanda's now primary producer. She's got bees, You've got bets.

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Speaker 3: I've got Australian native stingless bees.

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Speaker 4: A native bee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we just got the honey from them last week.

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Speaker 2: It tastes like like the cure or like a dessert.

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Speaker 4: One really tangy. And yeah, it's very tangy. And as

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Speaker 4: there were bees, they work so hard to get such

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Speaker 4: a small amount of honey. It's a very very different

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Speaker 4: sort of honey to to a European bee honey, which

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Speaker 4: is obviously very sweet and you get copious amounts of it.

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Speaker 4: But the beautiful thing with your native bees you don't

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Speaker 4: have to consider barowamite, and you know that they're stingless.

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Speaker 4: You're a great job pollinating, so both of them work

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Speaker 4: in harmony.

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Speaker 1: Are you saying that you have real bees?

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Speaker 2: No, no, Joe saying that you you've got real bees

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Speaker 2: that make a lot of honey.

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Speaker 4: Look, I do I have European bees in the garden.

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Speaker 4: We have a lot of native bees. So everyone has

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Speaker 4: this idea only have one or the other, but they

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Speaker 4: actually work in harmony. I mean, I look at so

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Speaker 4: many different varieties of navy bees. You know, whether you

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Speaker 4: have your little tiny ones or you have blue banded beef.

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Speaker 4: You're surrounded by them constantly in the garden, and they

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Speaker 4: are right alongside your European bees.

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Speaker 1: Right, So you've got three types of them.

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Speaker 3: It's competitive on my behalf.

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Speaker 1: Lula jo and agreed.

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Speaker 5: She's got she's got three kinds of bees, and she's

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Speaker 5: got a veggie patchways your veggie patch.

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Speaker 3: Can I ask you this?

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Speaker 2: Do your colleagues sometimes get annoyed with you? Because this

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Speaker 2: is to be with me in the living room. I

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Speaker 2: text Miguel mid Meal to say, what happens here? I've

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Speaker 2: stuffed this up?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: Text barrier Chris. Do they regret you having their numbers? I?

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Speaker 4: Look, I think they are very used to it. Put

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Speaker 4: it I've warmed them down. They they they actually are

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Speaker 4: very very patient with me. So whether it's something in

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Speaker 4: the garden or whether it's something in the kitchen, they

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Speaker 4: are all absolutely you know, as I know, your team

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Speaker 4: was very giving with their time and their knowledge, and

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Speaker 4: I think that comes from the fact that that's what

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Speaker 4: they all do for a living, and they're really passionate

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Speaker 4: about it as well, So I don't mind sharing me.

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Speaker 4: That's a whole reason they're they're on the show.

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Speaker 2: And I felt I could never give anything in return.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I could do a radio time call or something

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Speaker 2: we do nothing.

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Speaker 5: Well, you could provide a thimbleful of honey for everyone

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Speaker 5: to enjoy from your.

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Speaker 4: From your I do drop off products for the offer.

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Speaker 4: So I like that. And this week it was green

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Speaker 4: chili jam and pickle cucumbers and posada, and next week

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Speaker 4: it will be mango chutney and mixed very jam.

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Speaker 3: So and you've got well, that's made me feel very.

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Speaker 4: Yes, my husband is spending a lot of time on Evaccivator.

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Speaker 5: How many what have you got a new place? Can

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Speaker 5: we just talk about your plants from a minute. I'm

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Speaker 5: not talking about those garden he plans. I'm talking planned equipment.

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Speaker 1: What have you got.

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Speaker 4: We've only got an excavator and a tractor, and to

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Speaker 4: be honest, the excavator is at a tip truck. I've

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Speaker 4: got a truck driving license, so we've got a tip truck.

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Speaker 4: And at the moment, all our time that the farmer's

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Speaker 4: basically spent with Todd on his excavator putting leaves into

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Speaker 4: the truck, and then I take it away and stump

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Speaker 4: at the store the back fill down the track. So

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Speaker 4: it is we just play with it all day, every day.

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Speaker 4: But it's very satisfying and great fun.

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Speaker 5: You could sell tickets. I'm happy to buy one second round.

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Speaker 5: I just love playing with escavators and tip trucks. I

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Speaker 5: love that stuff. When this fails, that's what I'm going

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Speaker 5: to do.

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Speaker 3: Give yourself an hour next year I'll be around your house.

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Speaker 5: Our Better Homes of Gardens return seven o'clock tomorrow, seven

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Speaker 5: and seven plus Joe Griggs.

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Speaker 1: It's always a treat.

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Speaker 4: It is always great fun. And enjoy those bees, Amanda,

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Joe.

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Speaker 3: I will we have no I do? I got a

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Speaker 3: little jar of it. Give me a break. Thank you, Joe.

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Speaker 3: Always nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: It's four to eight Joanna Griggs. They're coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Instagram is here. You buy a lot of honey with

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Speaker 1: two thousand dollars, probably get a good.

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Speaker 3: Deal from Johanna.

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Speaker 1: She's got a surplus.

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Speaker 3: I want the Pisata's like.

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Speaker 5: She's like America and you're like Australia as far as

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Speaker 5: she's got surplus honey.

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Speaker 1: Just as a you know, a comparing Brenda.

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Speaker 2: You're killing me. Shut your neck anyway. You are exhausting today.

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Speaker 2: You are completely exhausting.

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Speaker 1: Really what for many.

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Speaker 3: Other days it's so different? Or actually every day you're

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Speaker 3: completely exhausting.

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Speaker 1: You know what's happened. You've been on holidays, you just

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Speaker 1: you're not used to me again.

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Speaker 3: I've been back a month