In the first week in January, Oxford becomes the hub for farming folk to gather. The Oxford Farming conference is where agriculture and business rub shoulders, with the NFU, politicians and businessmen debating profits and outputs.
Organic growing can be a fantastic and rewarding pastime - as well as producing lovely flowers and food it can help you relax, take stock and escape the pressures of daily life.
Leicestershire Master Gardeners have been involved in setting up an innovative project in Oadby, where a local multicultural group is coordinating an effort to connect residents at a migrants’ hostel with local people.
For many households, Christmas is a time when more waste than usual is produced. Here we explore a few simple ways to make it a greener Christmas!
To celebrate World Soil Day, Garden Organic have produced a soil information pack for gardeners. It includes a wealth of information on organic methods, gathered from more than 50 years of our charity’s research and development.
Things tend to slow up in the garden at this time of year, with the more tedious tidying jobs taking priority, however that need not be the case!
Garden Organic and Norfolk County Council’s Master Composter programme this month won a silver Green Apple award at a prestigious ceremony held at the Houses of Parliament for a joint programme with Love Food Hate Waste.
From strawberry jam to tomato ketchup, and the great British apple to winter salad bags - young entrepreneurs from 10 London schools shared their food growing skills with the public at City Hall on Thursday 13 October 2016.
The Autumn re-launch of ‘Earthworm Watch’ is set to inspire an army of gardeners and other citizen scientists across the UK to record the diversity of earthworms hidden beneath our feet!
Every year, Garden Organic invites the charity’s volunteer Master Gardeners, Master Composters, Food Buddies and Growing Buddies from across the UK to join them in celebrating another inspirational year of spreading the word on organic food growing, food preparation and home composting.