She is married to writer Adam Nicolson, and has two daughters with him, plus three stepsons from his previous marriage. Her family's move to a small farm in Sussex was depicted in Nicolson's book Perch Hill: A New Life.[7]
She now runs a mail-order company, specialising in cutting plants. The gardener Christopher Lloyd, a near-neighbour at Great Dixter, described Raven in the mid-1990s as "really energetic and creative ... promot[ing] a more dynamic and showy style of gardening than has been fashionable for many years".[8]
Raven's publications include The Cutting Garden, The Bold and Brilliant Garden, The Great Vegetable Plot, Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook (U.S. title: In Season) which was named Cookery Book of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers in 2008.[9] and A Year Full of Flowers which describes her garden at Perch Hill in Sussex.[10]
In 2011, she published a monumental book on Wild Flowers, with photographs by Jonathan Buckley, who has worked with her on most of her books. A BBC2 television series called Bees, Butterflies and Blooms, focusing on the national decline in pollinating insects and championing nectar-rich flowers as a way of saving them, was broadcast in February 2012. She presented an episode of Great British Garden Revival which aired on BBC Two in 2014.[11]Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden was published in November 2014.
^Date of death taken from "A Rum Affair" New York Times Book Review], which has the first chapter of Karl Sabbagh, A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
^BBC – Press Office – Sarah Raven. The original of this reference is no longer available, but the link is to an archived version at the Internet Wayback Machine. Her current BBC biography has no educational background for her.