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Citizen Science and Research

Our research aims to advance the knowledge of practical organic growing techniques and to study the socio-economic, health, and environmental effects of gardening and local food production.
About our research

Read research into cropping systems, environmental economics and social science, organic weed management and therapeutic properties of gardening.

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Research at Garden Organic

Garden Organic’s position as the leading source of information on organic growing comes from more than 60 years of practical research, much of it as the Henry Doubleday Research Association.

Research at Garden Organic

Members' Experiments

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    Members’ Experiments

    Each year we organise several citizen science experiments that our members can participate in. Over the years, these experiments have played an important part in informing the way we grow organically today. Find out about this year's experiments.

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    Members’ Experiment archive

    From our organic box scheme survey in 2005 to testing a novel biostimulant in 2021 - read the outcomes of members experiments carried out over the last 16 years.

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    Setting up your own research project

    This page contains resources to help people design their own simple research projects. The resources are outputs from a NERC funded project (EDENS) to help develop research capacity amongst community groups.

Read our latest research report

To mark our 65th anniversary, Garden Organicʼs director of horticultural science, Dr Bruce Pearce, shows you why gardens are the key tool in tackling biodiversity loss.