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For many households, the festive season is a time when more waste than usual is produced. We wanted to share a few simple tips and swaps to help you reduce waste, save you money and give you a greener, merrier Christmas.
A recent study from Sheffield University shows the many ways in which allotment growing benefits individuals as well as society. And it doesn't have to be just allotment growing. Growing your own veg and flowers provides mental and physical well-being, improves nature connectedness, adds to social capital and community cohesion.
Garden Organic have added their signature to a letter to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), urging them to drop their proposed partnership with CropLife – an organisation which represents the agrochemical industry.
Our wonderful community engagement team are still working hard on projects that are committed to finding new ways to deliver workshops on organic and sustainable growing and waste management practices to reach people despite continued and ever-changing restrictions.
If you’ve enjoyed growing your own fresh organic food this summer, don’t be fooled into thinking it has to stop over the winter. You can keep your household in organic salads and greens without venturing outside. Not only are they easy to grow indoors, but they will sprout and keep you in healthy vitamins within weeks of sowing. Here’s how:
What a crazy six months it has been! No one could have foreseen all the twists and turns that this year has brought, but for me, the allotment and garden have been a lovely constant. It has been the one place where I have felt (mostly!) in control.
So, the start of October has brought torrential rain so I’ve spent very little time on the allotment or in the garden.
We were spoilt with a lovely couple of days last weekend, so we were busy out in the garden tidying up. I pulled the netting off the brassicas and was shocked to find an aphid and caterpillar invasion.