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Organic Way issue 205
Page number 5 - Members Experiments
Page number 6 - Centre for Agroecology and Food Security
Page number 6 - Growing Master Network
Page number 8 - Join us at the Edible Garden Show
- www.theediblegardenshow.co.uk
16-18 March 2012, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire Tickets online at www.theediblegardenshow.co.uk or on 0844 338 8001 Garden Organic members can save 25% on tickets by quoting the exclusive code ORGANIC12. Terms and conditions apply.
Page number 8 - New training sessions for teaching professionals
- www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicgardening/schools_courses.php
For more information about Garden Organic's training for schools.
Page number 8 - 2012 AGM and Members Weekend
Page number 9 - Food Sovereignty Day at Houses of Parliament
Page number 9 - Growing Homes in Europe Open Garden Foundation, Hungary
Page number 11 - Sowing New Seeds rocks
Page number 12 - Garden Organic Answers
- www.gardenorganic.org.uk/members/memb_enq.php
If you are a member of Garden Organic, and have a gardening query, send your email via the members area of the Garden Organic Website
Page number 17 - Top Tips for Tempting Seedlings
- Growing from seed factsheet www.gardenorganic.org.uk/factsheets/gs1.php
Sowing seed - a step-by-step guide for beginners - Organic Gardening guidelines www.gardenorganic.org.uk/pdfs/Organic-Gardening-Guidelines-2010.pdf
- Master Gardeners programme
Page number 18 - Heritage Seed Library
Page number 21 - Sowing New Beans
Page number 23 - Keep them growing
Page number 24 - 25 - Growing our future
Page number 27 - Members' experiments 2012
Page number 30 - 31 - Lifting the Lid
- Reference list
Esrey, S.A. (2000) Towards a recycling society: ecological sanitation - closing the loop to food security. Ecological sanitation Symposium.
Heinonen-Tanski, H and Wijk-Sijbesma, C. (2003) Human excreta for plant production. Bioresource Technology. 10 Gong, C.M., Koichi, I., Shunji, I, and Takashi, S. (2005) Survival of pathogenic bacteria in compost with special reference to Escherichia coli. Journal of Environmental Science 17 (5): 770-4.
Holmqvist, A., Moller, J. And Dalsgaard, A. (2002) Thermophilic composting: a hygienization method of source-separated faecal toilet waste. Archived at http://orgprints.org/5838.
Shore, L.S. and Schemesh, M (2003) Naturally produced steroid hormones and their release into the environment. Pure Appl. Chem., vol. 75: 11-12; pp 1859-1871.
Werner, C., Abdoulaye Fall, P., Schlick, J., and Mang, H.P. (2003) Reasons for and principles of ecological sanitation. 2nd international symposium on ecological sanitation.
Page number 34 - Why not 'Bake your lawn'?
- Bake your lawn, Real Bread Campaign http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/bake_your_lawn/
[1] Comino, Isabel; Ana Real, Laura de Lorenzo, Hugh Cornell, Miguel Angel Lopez-Casado, Francisco Barro, Pedro Lorite, Ma Isabel Torres, Angel Cebolla, Carolina Sousa (12). "Diversity in oat potential immunogenicity: basis for the selection of oat varieties with no toxicity in coeliac disease". Gut (First Online). http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2011/02/11/gut.2010.225268.abstract. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
Page number 35 - Garden Organic Courses 2012
Organic Way issue 204
Page number 5 - Master Composter Malcolm Nobbs explains our "One Pot Pledge" campaign to Samantha Fox, who visited our stand.
Page number 6 - Garden Organic Local Groups
Page number 6 - Silent killer still at large
Page number 7 - New trustees needed for 2012
Page number 8 - Good food for all - full report
Page number 8 - Apple weekend at Ryton
Page number 8 - Potato days at Ryton 28th and 29th January 2012
- http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/events/index.php
Many of the varieties on sale at the 2011 Potato days will be offered again in 2012. A full list will be posted on the Garden Organic website by the end of the year
Page number 9 - New schools training for volunteers
Page number 10 - Aminopyralid still active
Page number 12 - Saving tomato seed - full instructions
Page number 15 - Making Organic Gardening the norm
Page number 16 - Hunger for a peat free future
Page number 19 - Autumn and winter in the polytunnel
Page number 20 - Heritage Seed Library - There's more to swapping
Page number 23 - The garden organic book of compost
Page number 26 - Dudi, Callaloo, Fish Chilli and Keera - Sowing new seeds project
Page number 26 - Visting Ryton gardens
Page number 30 - Currant advice
Page number 30 - Garden Organic Factsheets
Page number 35 - Cohesion through growing
Organic Way issue 202
Page number 5 - Your views on peat needed - urgently
Page number 6 - Growing schools conference
Page number 6-9 - Why I love organic
Page number 7 - News
Page number 7 - Fundraising
- Dinner4Good
- Geoff Bunyan's Coast2Coast ride sponsorship
For further information and support on fundraising for Garden Organic, contact fundraising@gardenorganic.org.uk
Page number 8 - Local food in Estonia
Page number 9 - Square beds coming to Derbyshire
Page number 9 - Conference: Making organic gardening the norm
Page number 10 - Members Letters
Page number 13 - Garden Organic Answers
- For the full report go to www.organicgrowersalliance.co.uk/node/328
Lawn weedkiller hazard flagged up
Page number 17 - Members Experiments 2011
Page number 19 - The Garden Organic Gardening Conference and AGM
Page number 20 - Heritage Seed Library
Page number 20 - Seed Saving Guidelines
Page number 20 - The Organic Garden Holt Farm
Page number 24-25 - Master Gardeners
Page number 30 - Master Composters
Page number 34 - Garden plants a threat?
Page number 37 - Seasonal recipes
Page number 38 - Working for the nation’s future
Page number 38 - 'Every school a food growing school' report
Organic Way issue 201
Page number 5-7 - Aminopyralid in manures again? Or still?
Page number 8-9 - EU proposal would fast-track GM crops
Page number 10-11 - Letters
Page number 26-27 - BBA
Organic Way issue 200
Page number 9 - Rocket testing
Page number 10 - Members' Letters
- Soil Association
Protected cropping consulation 2010. Deadline extended to 19th July 2010
Page number 19 - What a lot of veg!
Page number 21 - Peckham revisited
Page number 35 - Masters of Composting
Organic Way issue 199
Page number 6 - The One Pot Pledge - help us to help others have a grow!
Page number 7 - Get Involved
- For more information visit www.gardenorganic.org.uk/events.
You can also buy course places as a gift for a non-member, and still benefit from your membership discount.
Page number 8 - Get Involved
- Find out about groups near you at: www.gardenorganic.org.uk/local
Getting involved with your Local Group is a great way to support Garden Organic, find out more about organic gardening techniques, meet likeminded people, and help to spread the word about organic growing. - Full list of the gardens (pdf)
Call Membership Services on 024 7630 8210. - Adopt a Veg scheme
Page number 10 - Members' letters
Page number 11 - Member's letters
- Leek moth
If any members have other strategies for dealing with this problematic pest, do please let us know. - Blackberry Cordial Recipe (pdf)
S Cayless also sent in her recipe for blackberry cordial, which she has tried as "greener" way of preserving this fruit.
Page number 12 - Garden Organic answers
Page number 13 - Garden Organic answers
Page number 15 - Ready to use
- Garden Organic factsheets
You can find more information in a selection of Garden Organic factsheets, which are available on our website.
Page number 19 - Comfrey in the garden
Page number 24 - Heritage Seed Library
- Rebsie Fairholm's Blog
Rebsie Fairholm, Gloucestershire Rebsie is a professional folk musician who champions the cause of amateur plant breeding and heritage vegetables. - Sign up for Seed news
Page number 25 - We've bean growing
- Heritage Seed Library seed saving guidelines
For more advice on saving French bean and other seeds, visit the Heritage Seed Library seed saving guidelines.
Page number 31 - Deal with wireworms
Page number 37 - A spiral of herbs
- The Food for Life Partnership
The Food for Life Partnership is a significant part of Garden Organic's work educating young people and the schools' wider community about food, how to grow it, and where it comes from.
Organic Way issue 197
Page number 6 - Get Involved
- Heritage vegetable Survey
If you already grow vegetables from our Heritage Seed Library (HSL), you could help even more by completing a questionnaire about your experiences. - Compost mini beast survey with Plymouth University
Download the Compost Survey Form (PDF 248Kb) via the the link above or call Heather Jackson on 024 7621 7742 - Organic Gardening Catalogue 2010
Visit the Organic Gardening Catalogue via the link above to buy online or to order a printed catalogue. - Leaving a legacy - find out more here
Or contact Verity Thompson at vthompson@gardenorganic.org.uk - Compost mini beast survey with Plymouth University
Download the Compost Survey Form (PDF 248Kb) via the the link above or call Heather Jackson on 024 7621 7742
Page number 8 - Get Involved
- Ipswich People's Community Garden
- New Group in Bakewell/Hope Valley area
- City and Guilds Certificate in Organic Gardening
Page number 9 - Organic Gardening Catalogue
- Organic Gardening Catalogue 2010
Visit the Organic Gardening Catalogue via the link above to buy online or to order a printed catalogue.
Page number 10 - News
- Grow your own art
A series of limited edition, screen printed posters from some of the UK's leading, contemporary, urban artists. With the topical theme of "grow your greens" and produced sustainably using innovative inks and papers, proceeds from the sales of the posters will go to Garden Organic. All prints will be signed and numbered.
Page number 11 - News
- Growing cards
Handy, quick-reference Growing Instruction Cards - all the information you need to start growing your own veg, fruit, herbs, edible flowers and green manures.
Download them FREE
This resource is produced by Garden Organic as part of the Food for Life Partnership and was funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
Page number 13 - News
Page number 14 - Garden Organic answers
- Growing calalloo
Sally Cunningham's latest book Asian Vegetables (available from Garden Organic) is an excellent source of information about calaloo (called chauli in Hindi) and other vegetables from warmer climes. - Storing potatoes
For best success, store potatoes in hessian or paper sacks or in boxes in a cool, dark, mouse-and frost-free location.
Find out more in our factsheet Storing the Harvest
Page number 18-19 - Members experiments for 2010
- Register here for Members Experiments
Garden Organic members’ experiments is an original and exciting grass roots science scheme, which helps us develop and share cutting edge organic gardening knowledge.The scheme allows us to test scientific research ideas and results in a garden setting, transferring information from horticultural research programmes to gardeners.
Page number 23 - Is my compost ready?
Page number 24 - Gardens of the Mekong
Page number 29 - Your very own underground fertilizer factory
Page number 34 - Banish Gluts and Famines
Page number 37 - Growing composters
Organic Way issue 196
Page number 6 - Get involved
- Volunteer with us
You can help contribute to our development by becoming a volunteer, and some of the roles available are listed at this page. - The Big Lunch
It's really easy to get involved - for your guide to organising a Big Lunch and for tips, ideas and resources visit the Big Lunch website
Page number 7 - Growing funds
- Partner companies
See our webpage for details on our affiliations with partner companies. And if your company would like to get involved, then get in touch. - EveryClick
You can support us by setting Everyclick as your preferred search engine and choosing to benefit Garden Organic. Find out more by clicking the link above. - Shopping on Amazon
We have an associates account with Amazon.co.uk whereby Amazon will pay us a referral fee on anything bought via a link from our website. So, if you usually shop using Amazon.co.uk, go via this link and you can help support us without it costing you an extra penny! - eBay for Garden Organic
Supporting Garden Organic through eBay sales means you can help us not only raise funds to support our work, but also raise our profile by getting our name out to a wider audience.
So, next time you're thinking of selling, please think of us!
Find out more about eBay for Charity.
Page number 10 - Garden Organic news
- The Veg Doctor will see you now!
Veg Doctors are growers that canshare skills, pass on ideas and offer much needed enthusiasm to novice growers, and what we want you, our experienced members, to do is sign up!
Page number 11 - Garden Organic news
Page number 15 - Garden Organic answers
Page number 21 - Bumblebee Survey 2008
- Bumblebee Members' Experiment
Our thanks to everyone who took part in this survey, and those who sent us photographs. Members can download the full scientific report on the survey. From the Useful links box on the Garden bumblebee survey page. - Bumblebee Conservation Trust website
Page number 23 - Heritage Seed Library
- International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Global Crop Diversity Trust
- Garden Organic's Heritage Seed Library
Page number 37 - Transforming food culture
- Try a new recipe from Focus on Food
- Visit an organic farm
The Soil Association's Farms Network list around 100 farms that welcome visitors. - Visit an organic farm
The Soil Association's Farms Network list around 100 farms that welcome visitors.
Organic Way issue 195
Page number 5 - Get Involved
Page number 7 - Heritage plants for sale
- Tomato varieties available
Tomatoes grown from our Heritage Seed Library collection, will be on sale again at Garden Organic Ryton this year. - Biographies of our trustees
Page number 8 - Garden Organic Local
Page number 11 - Garden Organic news
Page number 12 - Members' Letters
Page number 13 - Members' letters - Garden Organic ideally placed
Page number 16 - A floral feast
Page number 18-19 - Raspberries
- Garden Organic factsheet: Raspberry pest and disease management
- The Organic Gardening Catalogue:
Raspberry varieties available from the Organic Gardening Catalogue
Page number 23 - Heritage Seed Library
Page number 25 - Let's liberate diversity!
Page number 28-29 - Compostable packaging – the breakdown
- Have a go
Put compostable packaging in your home compost bin and let us know what happens. You can report online (via our forums) or write to the Sustainable Waste team at Garden Organic Ryton.
Page number 30-31 - The world beneath your feet
Page number 36-37 - Green bottle gardening?
- Garden Organic's resources for schools
- Bootle greenhouse instructions on REAP website
If you would like to construct your own bottle greenhouse or help your local school to build their own, there are full instructions on the REAP website
Organic Way issue 194
Page number 6 - Your views counts
- Sustainable Communities Act - further information
On this site, you will find information about the Sustainable Communities Act 2007, which has the potential to make a very real difference to local businesses, local services, and preserving the local environment, in addition to case studies of initiatives which are already proving successful in promoting the values of social cohesion and 'green living' in local communities and Local Authority areas around the country.
Page number 8 - Organic gardening on YouTube
- Garden Organic's YouTube channel here
In a bid to engage an ever widening audience in growing their own, Garden Organic now has its own channel on YouTube, the international video-sharing website.
Page number 10 - School staff goes organic
Page number 21 - Gardening in an era of food insecurity
- DEFRA food security document and response here
DEFRA food security documents, Garden Organic's response, Prof. Tim Lang's speech, and more...
Page number 32 - Members' Experiments
- Growing chickpeas in the UK: can it be done?
Results of the 2007 experiment can be found here
Page number 41 - Your Green Roofs
- Factsheet GG38 - Living Sedum Roofs
- Our members' projects
As promised in Organic Way Winter issue 194, here are detailed descriptions and more pictures of members' Green Roofs featured in the magazine.
Organic Way issue 192
Page number 6 - News
- Make your Amazon purchases GO further
Do you shop with Amazon.co.uk? Then next time try visiting Amazon via the Garden Organic website. As Amazon associates, Garden Organic benefits from your purchases. Click this link and to make your purchases and we will receive between 3% and 7% of the value without it costing you an extra penny.
Page number 39 - Problem Solved
Page number 45 - Seed News
Organic Way issue 191
Page number n/a - Pots from recycled magazines
- Turn old magazines into useful flowerpots
You can turn your old copies of The Organic Way into useful pots which can be used for seeds or for potting on.
Page number 20-21 - New reed bed for Garden Organic Ryton
- Reed bed factsheet
In 1992, Garden Organic Ryton installed a reed bed sewage treatment facility to treat, purify and re-cycle the waste effluents produced at the site. During the summer of 2007 a second replacement reed bed sewage treatment facility was installed to cope with the expansion of our site and increased visitor numbers. Read on here...
Organic Way issue 187
Page number 34-37 - Member's Experiments – Organic Box Schemes
- Find local box schemes near to you
Then type into the search box the phrase 'vegetable box schemes' to find local organic box schemes.
Page number 46 - Get Set, Grow! Growing from Seed
- Garden Organic – Factsheet GG 35 – Making seed and potting compost
- 'What to do in the garden now' – updated monthly
- Duchy Originals Garden Organic for Schools – free downloads of ‘Growing from seed’ and ‘Saving seed’ leaflets
Organic Way issue 186
Page number 42 - Get Set, Grow! Guide Demystifying Spuds: Pointers for Perfect Potatoes
- Garden Organic – Factsheet GG 36 – Growing Potatoes in Containers
- Garden Organic – Factsheet DC 17– Potato Late Blight
- Garden Organic –Factsheet 19 – Crop Rotation
- Thompson & Morgan: Sarpo Axona
- Thompson & Morgan: Sarpo Mira
- Organic catalogue – Blight Resistant Potatoes
Organic Way issue 185
Page number 36 - Get Set, Grow! Guide What to Plant in Autumn: Onions and Garlic
- Garden Organic – and A Beginner’s Guide to Organic Pest & Disease Control
- Garden Organic – Managing Your Soil
- Garden Organic – Factsheet DC 16 – Onion White Rot
- Garden Organic –Factsheet 19 – Crop Rotation
- The Garlic Farm
- Organic catalogue – Onions & Garlic
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