TOTTENHAM'S KITCHEN GARDEN

Meet Kuda Chimbudzi,42, born near Harare, Zimbabwe, who is the Head Kitchen Gardener at Tottenham Hotspur FC's training complex. He has been growing food since a young boy, old enough to hold a hoe! He is using skills learned in Zimbabwe and at Moulton College, Northants in 2013, to grow nutrious food for athletes, feeding around 80 hungry sportsmen and support staff. Later he was working at the University of Leicester Botanic Garden and Loughborough University and Cassiobury Park, Watford before becoming Head Kithcen Gardener at Spurs in 2018.

The Spurs training complex is alive with footballers, but also bees, and other insects, that enjoy the lush green beds of sweet corn, leaves, courgettes, grown with the welfare of the players in mind. The seed is chemical free and the soil free from artificial fertiliser. Tottenham became the "greenest club" in the Premier League. There is a major re-cycling scheme and a drive to eliminate the use of single use plastic around the 77 acre Hotspur way training complex. 150 new and semi-mature trees have been planted on the boundaries, there are historic features such as borders of plants and flowers. Sustainability is in mind and has been the brainchild of the club chairman, Daniel Levy. He has insisted on an organic kitchen garden and orchard, run by Kuda. The idea is to produce fresh organic food with a minimum carbon footprint, using half an acre of gardens surrounded by 15 grass football pitches. There are 34 of the 70 vegetable beds raised using recycled railway sleepers and bordered by tall hedges for shelter, wildlife habitats and an orchard with over three dozen apple trees.

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