The need for more affordable housing is often cited as a reason for building on often-environmentally important garden plots. But does such a policy result in more cheap homes? Apparently not, argues Simon Leadbeater
Do the environmental benefits of gardens outweigh the need for affordable houses? Simon Leadbeater | 19th October 2010 Comment House Building Affordable Homes Gardens Zac Goldsmith Comment Society …
In Romford, Essex, villagers are getting their hands dirty transforming a historic walled garden at Bedfords Park
… Sevier | 11th November 2011 Activism Food & Gardening Community Gardening Big Society Clear Village Organic … combined effort between various groups. Local gardening group the Friends of Bedfords Park …
Amateur gardeners striving to live the 'Good Life' should ensure they check the contents of store-bought compost. For peat's sake - we need to think beyond our backyards and choose compost carefully
… | 22nd July 2011 Comment Food And Farming Gardening Peat Pesticides Organic Agriculture … this to be true because our members have been gardening successfully without peat for over … that more and more people are getting into gardening at home, but it’s important that we …
The story of how a group of dissatisfied residents pulled together, got funding, and created a blooming community garden where the work, and the rewards, are shared
… Food And Farming Green Living Community Gardening Stratford Newham What Will The … be about 20 on any given Saturday morning gardening session, according to Dasha. … planting in July, ignoring a lot of the gardening advice, and it worked - the volume …
It's time to halt the loss of the nation's front gardens to dreary paving, writes Jenny Jones. Green gardens protect against floods, provide homes for wildlife, keep cities cool in summer, and help us all feel happier. Now, with 7 million gardens already paved over, we must protect those that remain.
Keep our front gardens green! Jenny Jones | 30th June 2015 Comment UK Cities Transport Natural World paved-for-sale-cut.jpg It's time to halt the loss of the nation's front gardens to dreary paving, …
A proposed redesign of the Natural History Museum's grounds in London would cause some unfortunate collateral damage, writes Gary Grant - the destruction of the Museum's 21 year-old wildlife garden, an ecological jewel in the heart of London which features over 3,000 species of plant and animal in just one lovingly tended acre. The Museum must think again!
Natural History Museum must not destroy its Wildlife Garden Gary Grant | 2nd June 2016 Activism Conservation Cities Biodiversity Development UK london natural history museum wildife garden-cut.jpg A …
Idleness usually sees Tom through most of life's trials. But not gardening. Oh no. Nature took one look and ran amok
… I tried natural gardening. It was a disaster Tom Hodgkinson | … 2010 Comment Green Living Food And Farming Gardening Work Society tom_hodgkinson_crop.jpg … Tom through most of life's trials. But not gardening. Oh no. Nature took one look and ran …
Be an eco-friendly gardener and make a promise to be peat-free
… Wildlife Peat Garden Organic Take Action Gardening How To Make A Difference 2peat.jpg … Promise '. READ MORE... GREEN LIVING Top 10…gardening blogs From planting tips to making … has the lowdown on the web’s best organic gardening blogs REVIEW How to Make and Use …
It seems we've been talking about bringing green areas to urban spaces for years, but at this year's Chelsea Flower Show (which runs until 27th May) it's clear this theme remains a top priority writes LAURA BRIGGS who pays a visit to the world's best known flower show
… 2017 Comment Chelsea Flowwr Show Green Spaces Gardening Greening Urban Spaces dscn4088.jpg …
They used to sleep beneath London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Now a pioneering collaboration between the Southbank Centre and a housing association is giving a group of ex-homeless a chance to create a rooftop garden
… Drakakis | 14th June 2011 Activism Food & Gardening Biodiversity Community Gardening Ecotherapy Homeless Wild Flowers … who slept among dustbins in London, began gardening when he became a tenant in one of …
Camilla Scaramanga takes a look at how growing food in schools is having a positive impact on children, teachers, parents and wider society.......
… For Life, says "Instead of seeing growing and gardening as something peripheral, actually … Society runs a similar benchmark scheme for gardening. It launched its Campaign for School Gardening in 2007, through which it has …
Estate community gardens are springing up in our cities - here's how to transform a derelict urban space into a food growing hub
… their problems.' Brian Crow, founder of the gardening club of the Taplow Gardens Estate in … and can take part in twice-monthly ‘twilight gardening sessions' to learn new skills. There … one big dog toilet,' he says. Crow set up a gardening club with some of his fellow …
Fun and easy to make, seedbombs can be used to green up hard-to-access urban wasteland or in your garden at home
… | 18th May 2010 Activism Food And Farming Gardening Guerilla Gardening Seedbombs Grow Your Own Seeds Plants … From these small beginnings grew the guerilla gardening movement itself, where vacant lots …
Satish Kumar received the P.E.A. environment award for most ecological family this week. Here he argues that cities should not be an impediment to sustainable living.
Time to rebuild Satish Kumar | 28th October 2021 | Comment Resurgence Trust PEA Awards Sustainable Cities Resurgence & Ecologist satishkumar_2.jpg Satish Kumar received the P.E.A. environment award …
The Garden Bridge will offer a new kind of green space in the heart of the city, strengthening London's status as the greenest capital in Europe, writes Bee Emmott. It will benefit the health and wellbeing of local communities and visitors alike.
Everything in the Garden Bridge is lovely! Bee Emmott | 3rd September 2015 Comment Cities UK garden-bridge-cut.jpg The Garden Bridge will offer a new kind of green space in the heart of the city, …
The unsung heroes of conservation, botanic gardens are quietly acting as 'arks' for our planets endangered plant species. And we should be very glad they are too...
… need to be made between our love of gardening – creating diversity – and the loss …
The more I think about it, the more sense it makes: gardening will save the world. For in a garden is truth, beauty and lots of good food...
… Tom Hodgkinson | 1st October 2008 Comment Gardening Consumerism Society Hubris … I think about it, the more sense it makes: gardening will save the world. For in a garden … are disconnected from nature by technology, gardening is a very simple way of …
Septuagenarian Mehr Fardoonji is still to be found with her hands in the soil after forty-five years of organic market gardening
… Organic Organics Market Gardens Market Gardening Crops Agriculture Smallholding … Organics Diversity Green Living Food And Gardening Case Study Interview_38.jpg … soil after forty-five years of organic market gardening ‘Land is the most important thing in …
It sounded wonderful: a futuristic 'garden bridge' across the Thames dripping with flowers and foliage, writes Will Jennings. But really it's a private enclosure of valuable public space, mature trees and views, backed by £60m of taxpayers money, that delivers no benefits to London's wildlife, environment or transport needs.
London's Garden Bridge: a damaging folly at public expense Will Jennings | 26th August 2015 Activism UK Cities Water Development Corporations Politics garden-bridge-view_arup-cut.jpg Artists …
Grow for Syria is a new UK-based campaign bringing gardeners across the South West together to fundraise for Syrian refugees by selling plants, seeds and other garden-related items. LAURA BRIGGS explains how you can get involved
… 2017 Activism Syria Refugees Fundraising Gardening claire reid.jpg Grow for Syria is a … I think that reaching out through food and gardening, basic everyday pleasures that bring … back to me to sell on," she explains. Local gardening clubs across the South West have …
Architects, designers and horticulturalists are working together to develop edible and environmentally friendly 'living walls' in cities throughout the world.
… of evergreen and annual edibles.” Vertical gardening Since Chelsea ended, many countries … Coronado proves how accessible vertical gardening can be, whatever your space. Many of …
An innovative Lottery-funded 'Scrumping Project' in Brighton and Hove is bringing rare apples back into the community
… 8th October 2009 Activism Case Study Food And Gardening Infinity Foods Scrumping … as allotment schemes, legalised guerilla-gardening and more, as listed below: • …