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  1. Lettuce White Seeded Samara

    Get your winter vitamin fix!

    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!

  2. Tubs of compost with lollipop sticks in them.

    Master Composters scoop top award!

    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.

  3. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan meeting with school children

    London schools celebrate food growing success at City Hall

    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.

  4. Worms in organic compost

    ‘Earthworm Watch’ returns to unearth the secrets of soil health

    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!

  5. Ryton garden in November

    Celebrating a year of achievement

    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.

  6. Chris Collins in his winter garden

    10 minutes with Chris Collins, GO's Head of Horticulture

    Garden Organic's new Head of Organic Horticulture, Chris Collins has a CV most gardeners can only dream of, taking in two Royal Botanic Gardens and the green space at 'The Queen's church' Westminster Abbey.

  7. Volunteers planting

    Now recruiting volunteers in Breckland!

    Breckland Council and national charity Garden Organic have launched a new scheme to create a network of volunteer ‘Growing Buddies’, to support older people and vulnerable residents in growing and gardening activities as part of the Breckland Master Gardeners Project.

  8. Hands holding a tray of organic vegetables including rainbow chard, tomatoes and squashes.

    Independent businesses key to organic success

    Recent research from Nielsen has shown that the UK’s organic market is likely to reach and exceed a value of £2 billion by the end of this year, with a considerable percentage of that thanks to independents.

  9. Bee sitting on top of a pink verbena flower

    New study finds neonicotinoid insecticides linked to wild bee decline across England

    Exposure to oilseed rape crops which have been treated with neonicotinoids has been linked to the long-term population decline of wild bee species across the English countryside, according to research published yesterday by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH).

  10. Garden Organic Volunteer pruning garden arch

    Garden Organic project scoops award

    Garden Organic's work with Golding Homes in Maidstone has received two prestigious awards in the Kent Housing Group Excellence Awards 2016.