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Garden Organic’s heritage seed helps sow golden success at Chelsea Flower Show - 22-05-2013
Heritage seed supplied by Garden Organic has helped sow success for Birmingham City Council’s ‘Enlightenment’ display as it scooped a Gold Medal award at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
A number of rare heritage seed varieties from Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library (HSL) including French beans, tomatoes, kale and peas featured in the wartime themed Birmingham in the Blitz element of the award winning garden. Seed varieties such as the Cherokee Trail of Tears French bean and Kenilworth tomato variety, which date back over 50 years or more, were donated from the HSL for the ‘Enlightenment’ display.
Fighting for Biodiversity and Safer Gardens key themes for AGM and Members Day - 14-05-2013
The role of campaigning in the Fight for Biodiversity and Safer Gardens were the key themes as Garden Organic hosted its 2013 Annual General Meeting and Members Day event.
A panel of guest speakers discussing the Fight for Biodiversity and Safer Gardens theme was the centrepiece of the Members Day held on Saturday 11 May at Garden Organic’s Ryton Gardens site. The panel comprising of Garden Organic’s President Tim Lang, Friends of the Earth’s Head of Nature Paul De Zylva and environmental and gardening journalist John Walker, all delivered a set of engaging and insightful talks around the key theme of Fighting Biodiversity and Safer Gardens.
Triumph and trepidation as Garden Organic gives cautious welcome to new draft EU seed directive - 09-05-2013
Garden
Organic, the national charity for organic growing, has given a cautious welcome
to the new EU seed directive as a “step in the right direction” but with a need
for “vigilance in the future” after fears the proposals would put plant
biodiversity at risk.
European Commission vote in favour of a two year ban in the use of Neonicotinoids - 29-04-2013
Great news - the European Commission have voted in favour of a two year ban in the use of Neonicotinoids.
Hairy Bikers get some core apple advice from Garden Organic’s Bob Sherman - 09-04-2013
Garden Organic’s Bob Sherman is set to feature
in the new Hairy Biker show Best of British,
providing core tips and advice on apples to the much loved TV chefs.
Get Set Grow - cancelled - 23-03-2013
Get Set Grow - cancelled
Search for new Master Gardeners in Coventry & Warwickshire - 18-03-2013
Garden Organic is searching for new Master Gardeners to help families across Coventry and Warwickshire to grow their own food.
Get Set, Grow! event - 25-02-2013
Get Set, Grow! event
Food growing set to be on National Curriculum - 10-02-2013
Garden Organic is delighted its long campaign for every schoolchild to have a chance to grow their own food looks set to succeed – with “horticulture” due to become part of the National Curriculum.
CAFS welcomes Professor Dyno Keatinge - 06-02-2013
The Centre for Agroecology and Food Security (CAFS) will host a talk by an international expert on agriculture’s role in tackling global malnutrition on Friday February 15.
64,000 people demand National Bee Action Plan - 29-01-2013
64,000 people demand National Bee Action Plan
James Wong supports National Potato Day - 19-12-2012
Visitors will have a chance to see celebrity gardener James Wong at Garden Organic's National Potato Day on Sunday January 27.
Local food heroes - 05-12-2012
A couple from Rugby, Warwickshire, have won an award for their outstanding contribution to Garden Organic's Master Gardener Programme.
'Grow your own food' a boost for health and sense of community, says Coventry University research - 11-10-2012
'Grow your own food' a boost for health and sense of community, says Coventry University research
Brussels rules against seed diversity - 25-07-2012
Brussels rules against seed diversity
Garden Organic encouraged by School Food Review announcement but warns against repetition - 05-07-2012
Garden Organic encouraged by School Food Review announcement but warns against repetition
Exotic plot good enough to eat at BBC gardening event - 11-06-2012
Exotic plot good enough to eat at BBC gardening event
Common sense hygiene means you can compost safely says Garden Organic - 28-05-2012
Common sense hygiene means you can compost safely says Garden Organic
How to grow ‘pomatoes’...or should that be ‘tomtatoes’? - 03-04-2012
Ethnobotanist and Garden Organic Ambassador, James Wong brings you his advice on how to grow 'pomatoes'!!! What ever you decide to call them, these amazing grafted plants fuse tomato shoots onto potato roots, giving you, in theory, ‘hybrid’ plants that offer up twice the crop from the same small plot.
‘Vegging out’ in school is good for children - 05-03-2012
‘Vegging out’ in school is good for children
New research centre to tackle food and water security worldwide - 13-01-2012
New research centre to tackle food and water security worldwide
New research centre launches - 18-11-2011
New research centre launches
Go potty for potatoes at longest running spud event! - 17-11-2011
Go potty for potatoes at longest running spud event!
Green-fingered students share success with Minister - 01-11-2011
Green-fingered students share success with Minister
Garden Organic welcomes Jamie Oliver school food manifesto - 25-10-2011
Garden Organic welcomes Jamie Oliver school food manifesto
Time is ripe for apple event - 04-10-2011
Time is ripe for apple event
Charity gifts for green gardeners - 16-09-2011
Charity gifts for green gardeners
Cuban Embassy visitor shown new Exotic Garden - 14-09-2011
Cuban Embassy visitor shown new Exotic Garden
James Wong opens organoponico at gardens - 24-08-2011
James Wong opens organoponico at gardens
Sophora so good at organic gardens - 11-08-2011
Sophora so good at organic gardens
Stunning sculptures on show at gardens - 01-08-2011
Stunning sculptures on show at gardens
Peat bogs wiped out by amateur gardeners living the ‘Good Lie’ - 23-06-2011
Peat bogs wiped out by amateur gardeners living the ‘Good Lie’
Kids encouraged to veg out in school - 23-05-2011
Kids encouraged to veg out in school
Season of art at organic gardens - 15-04-2011
Season of art at organic gardens
Garden Organic writes green manures guide - 28-03-2011
Garden Organic writes green manures guide
Keen composters get arty to ‘Celebrate Compost’ - 21-03-2011
Keen composters get arty to ‘Celebrate Compost’
Garden Organic recommends Food growing as a key life skill to the National Curriculum Review - 16-03-2011
Garden Organic recommends Food growing as a key life skill to the National Curriculum Review
Garden Organic response to Defra consultation on the horticultural use of peat - 11-03-2011
Garden Organic response to Defra consultation on the horticultural use of peat
Rare tomatoes available through new venture between Garden Organic and Delfland Nurseries - 09-03-2011
Rare tomatoes available through new venture between Garden Organic and Delfland Nurseries
Get set to grow! - 07-03-2011
Get set to grow!
Spring brings new ‘Potential’ at organic gardens - 01-03-2011
Spring brings new ‘Potential’ at organic gardens
Organic gardening benefit wider than taste and yield alone - 23-02-2011
Organic gardening benefit wider than taste and yield alone
Make the One Pot Pledge and give it a grow! - 22-03-2010
Make the One Pot Pledge and give it a grow!
Food for Life Partnership plants 400 fruit trees in England - 13-11-2009
Food for Life Partnership schools in England will soon be enjoying homegrown apples thanks to an initiative to get schools planting their own fruit trees.
800,000 school pupils in England to 'grow their own' by 2011 - 20-10-2009
Over 806,000* youngsters aged 4-16 in England are set to learn vital lessons about food through 'growing their own' thanks to a brand new resource for schools, produced by the UK's leading organic growing charity as part of its work with the Food for Life Partnership.
UK Food Security Assessment response - 11-08-2009
Garden Organic statement on the UK Food Security Assessment
Response to FSA report on organic food - 30-07-2009
Press Statement in response to FSA report on the nutritional benefits of organic food.
TV gardener drops into conference for composters - 27-07-2009
BBC Gardeners' World presenter, Alys Fowler, dropped in to the Garden Organic 'Master Composter' Conference on Saturday to share her own composting adventures with delegates.
New pest could pose threat to UK gardens as country warms up - 17-07-2009
A pest from southern Europe, seen occasionally in the UK since 2003, is feared to be breeding on our shores according to leading charity, Garden Organic, which warns it could become more common as the climate gets hotter.
Charity's mission to get the nation growing reaches Buckingham Palace - 14-06-2009
Garden Organic, which has been campaigning for back-garden food growing since 1958, has donated seeds to kick-start the new vegetable allotment in the Buckingham Palace garden.
Rare vegetables in favour with The Queen but charity urges don't forget the others - 14-06-2009
Many of the UK's vegetables may have fallen out of favour over the years, but while The Queen is doing her bit to help by growing rare vegetables on her new allotment, a leading charity is urging us not to forget the others.
Bumblebees need gardeners' help urges Garden Organic - 08-06-2009
Garden flowerbeds combined with untended garden areas could help protect Britain's declining bumblebee population, according to a survey by the UK's leading organic growing charity.
Charity urges us to cut our garden footprint on UN World Environment Day - 26-05-2009
Organic gardeners have a carbon footprint a third smaller than regular gardeners, which is why Garden Organic is urging more of us to go organic in the garden for UN World Environment Day.
Garden Organic helps create allotment on 3rd runway site - 11-05-2009
Some of the UK's top gardeners are coming together to create an allotment on land earmarked by Gordon Brown for the construction of a new runway at Heathrow airport.
Thirty years after The Good Life ended, actor Richard Briers is teaming up with Gardener's World presenter, Alys Fowler, Garden Organic and Greenpeace to plant fruit and vegetables on the "Airplot" in Sipson. The project is supported by Monty Don, president of the Soil Association.
It's George's day in heritage veg trials - 27-04-2009
A collection of heritage lettuce varieties has outperformed their commercial counterparts in new findings by the UK's leading organic growing charity.
No excuse for worming your way out of compost - 24-03-2009
Setting up a home wormery could be the answer to the age-old excuse 'I don't have room to compost', according to the UK's leading organic growing charity, which is urging everyone to give composting a go during Compost Awareness Week, Sunday 3 � Saturday 9 May 2009.
Rare sale of even rarer vegetables - 17-03-2009
Garden Organic is offering keen gardeners and lovers of great tasting produce the opportunity to grow rare vegetables that cannot be bought in seed catalogues, garden centres or the supermarket
Look after Mum and Mother Earth - 16-03-2009
Organic growing charity, Garden Organic, based in Warwickshire, is urging people to give Mother Earth a break on Sunday 22 March by reducing the energy used on the traditional Mothers Day celebration meal.
Greenfields Grow Their Own - 02-03-2009
Growing their own food � with support from Garden Organic - has proved a fantastic way for the children from many different cultures at Greenfields Community School, Nottinghamshire to learn and have fun together.
Garden Organic supports National Trust 'land share' but urges that skills must come first - 19-02-2009
Garden Organic, the UK's leading organic growing charity, has approved of the National Trust's announcement that it will make areas of unused land available for food growing, but urges that while access to land is important, re-skilling people in 'how to grow your own' is essential.
Major growth for organic education project - 06-02-2009
The longest standing organic horticulture project for schools in the UK, led by Garden Organic, has reached a major milestone in the challenge to engage children in food, by helping 5000 schools set up food growing projects.
Beat the crunch, grow your lunch! - 05-02-2009
The UK's leading organic growing charity is urging the increasing number of people trying to beat the credit crunch by turning to cheap low quality food, to make 2009 the year they grow their own instead.
EU pesticide vote: good news for our soil - 18-01-2009
Garden Organic, the UKs leading organic growing charity, which last year urged gardeners not to panic when EU pesticide laws were proposed, is pleased that the legislation has been approved and passed, but warns that more must be done.
New policy group will help define role of gardens in food security challenge - 11-12-2008
Garden Organic is pleased that the contributions of community food initiatives will be represented on the Government's new high-level food policy group created by Environment Minister, Hilary Benn. The UK's leading organic growing charity believes that community growing, including the role of home food production, will be instrumental in helping to secure to the future of our food.
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