Poppy Okotcha is a former model and horticulture expert. She is trained in horticulture and regenerative growing practices like permaculture, and forest gardening. She is a co-presenter of The Great Garden Revolution on Channel 4. Poppy was born in London but grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. During her teenage years she moved back to the UK, spending time in the British countryside, and spent her early 20s in London.