The London Orchard project: bringing fruit to car parks
Posted on April 1, 2010
New project aims to help Londoners have a closer relationship with their food and local wildlife. From the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment Network
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If you only do one thing this week … start an office garden
Posted on March 15, 2010
Sue Beesley spent 25 years working in the IT industry before leaving to become a gardener. "I spent all my time craving some green space, something green to look at," she says. These days she designs gardensfor offices, to provide spaces where workers can relax during their lunch-breaks. "It's a real sensory lift, a pick-me-up, having a garden to wander out into on a sunny day," she says.
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The battle of the land
Posted on March 15, 2010
What strikes me about this Dig for Victory film is how we've come full circle. During the Second World War, people were being asked to grow their own food as a way of helping to win the conflict against Germany: today, we're being urged to grow food to win the war on climate change.
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Eco-Schools Environmental Projects in Glasgow Scotland 2004 - 2009
Posted on February 9, 2010
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Brick City Urban Farms (part 1)
Posted on January 26, 2010
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In Latino Gardens, Vegetables, Good Health and Savings Flourish
Posted on January 18, 2010
The two-month-old vegetable garden, from which Mrs. Alarcon picks extravagant bursts of broccoli for breakfast with scrambled eggs, is both comforting and unfamiliar. It is one of 30 backyard vegetable gardens recently planted by a nonprofit group here called La Mesa Verde, or The Green Table, which makes house calls to help residents of the city’s low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhoods grow their own organic produce.
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Lambhill Stables Community Garden Project Glasgow 2009
Posted on December 31, 2009
How are you going to change this into a community garden?" A short video feature about the developments at the community garden site in Lambhil Stables, in north Glasgow.
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    • Prison food
    Posted on December 31, 2009
    Hugh helps some young offenders set up a growing space with chickens in a gaol.
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    More Landsharing on council land
    Posted on December 31, 2009
    Doreen and Marg in Leigh who have obtained permission from their local council to start a community Landshare.
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    • Landshare | Landshare community grows | channel4
    Posted on December 31, 2009
    The Landshare community grows stronger and stronger as more people offer their land to people willling to get involved with the gardening scheme.
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