What are the Environmental Benefits from Growing Organic Foods

Protecting the environment is a responsibility that all of us share the burden of. One way that it is helped is when foods are grown organically. There is plenty of value out there involved with it for all of us to benefit from. The growing demand from consumers for organic foods is what is driving [...]

10 Practical Steps to Organic Gardening

“Organic gardening is not just the rejection of chemicals, in the larger view, it is organic living using nature’s laws.” I read this quote by an unknown mortal sometime ago and realized that my parents and others like them were organic gardeners long before the current resurrection of these principles. They didn’t use chemicals on [...]

Innocent animals are not garden pests

From foxes and moles to pigeons and slugs, gardeners are keen to eradicate animals from their plots.

The secret life of a suburban garden

How many different species would you anticipate to find in a rather scruffy, small suburban garden? Juliette Jowit invited four ecologists round for a ‘bioblitz’ – with unexpected results Audio slideshow: A bioblitz audit of Juliette Jowit’s garden Results: A bioblitz of a London garden There are four bodies lying and crouching in our little back garden. The ecologists from the Natural History Museum (NHM) got here only minutes ago, but, while the kettle boils, they are already grubbing about behind our bins, under our windowsills, in the lawn, flowerbed and log pile.