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Gardening

Who needs meditation when you have a garden to potter in?
Paul McNamee

Who needs meditation when you have a garden to potter in?

Evenings in the garden offer a way to clear the mind
Kim Wilde: 'There's no avoiding getting your heart broken'
Letter To My Younger Self

Kim Wilde: 'There's no avoiding getting your heart broken'

Big Issue's new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening
St Georges Church on the corner of Colegate and Magdalen Street in the city of Norwich, Norfolk captured on a dull and wet Sunday.
Big Grow

Big Issue's new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening

I'm a market gardener. Here's why you've probably never really tasted a tomato before
10Foot Takeover

I'm a market gardener. Here's why you've probably never really tasted a tomato before

Reality star Vicky Pattison slept out in homelessness charity’s award-winning garden filled with weeds
Homelessness

Reality star Vicky Pattison slept out in homelessness charity’s award-winning garden filled with weeds

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Liberate your lawn: Here’s why you should do ‘No Mow May’ and rewild your garden
Two red faced children and a man sit in a meadow in summer surrounded by long grass and wildflowers
Biodiversity

Liberate your lawn: Here’s why you should do ‘No Mow May’ and rewild your garden

What next for Carly Burd, the woman whose allotment sabotage became a story of hope?
Carly Burd standing in her allotment holding a shovel and smiling
Crowdfunding

What next for Carly Burd, the woman whose allotment sabotage became a story of hope?

Seed libraries are planting joy in our communities when so much else seems gloomy
seed libraries/ communities
Cost of living crisis

Seed libraries are planting joy in our communities when so much else seems gloomy

How to care for your garden during a heatwave and a hosepipe ban
UK Heatwave

How to care for your garden during a heatwave and a hosepipe ban

Houseplants don’t just look nice – they can also give your mental health a boost
Health

Houseplants don’t just look nice – they can also give your mental health a boost

Why you should stop mowing your lawn to help the bees
Wildflowers
Biodiversity

Why you should stop mowing your lawn to help the bees

The guerrilla gardeners claiming back space for nature
Ellen Miles, a guerrilla gardener planting in her neighbourhood.
Earth Day 2022

The guerrilla gardeners claiming back space for nature

Four easy ways you can boost biodiversity - with or without a garden
Wildflowers in a field
Earth Day 2022

Four easy ways you can boost biodiversity - with or without a garden

In defence of buddleja, blossom of the concrete jungle
Buddleia
Gardening

In defence of buddleja, blossom of the concrete jungle

It's never too late to start totally digging 'Gardener's World'
Gardener's World
TV

It's never too late to start totally digging 'Gardener's World'

How to compost | Ben Raskin
Life

How to compost | Ben Raskin