[5] Cattle comments: "Growing furniture isn't going to save the planet, but it can show that it's possible to create genuinely useful things without adding to the pollution that industry inevitably seems to produce.

He thought of growing, training and grafting trees to shape, and developed the concept into a 3-legged stool and tables.

While pursuing his ideas as a PhD student at the Royal College of Art, he also lectured on a part-time basis.

[6] In 2007, as part of the exhibition 'Going Green' held by the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), Cattle gave a talk about his grown furniture, and explained how to train saplings on his plywood jigs.

The expected time frame of growing was 5 years, at which point the trees would be harvested to create the finished furniture.