- Food waste
- Grow your own
From food waste to fertiliser
Ever wondered what kitchen scraps you can and can’t put on your home compost heap? March’s gardening column tracks the final link in the food waste chain.
By Sarah Brown - 26th February 2021
2Sarah Brown writes and edits the growing advice pages for Garden Organic, the national charity for organic growing, which aims to get everyone growing ‘the organic way’ through campaigning, advice, community work and research. She also writes a monthly organic growing advice column for Wicked Leeks. A committed and long-term organic gardener, Sarah also produces The Organic Gardening Podcast each month with grower Chris Collins, which was shortlisted for the Gardening Media Guild’s Podcast of the Year 2019.
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How to feel good in February
Prune while imagining fragrant summer evenings, turn the compost, prepare pots, and listen to the birds chatter at dusk, writes Sarah Brown in her monthly gardening column.
By Sarah Brown - 1st February 2021
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- Grow your own
- Organics
Old friends and new treats
January's GYO column is all about choosing what to grow - a time of great excitement for any gardener and the chance to try new seed choices as well as old friends.
By Sarah Brown - 7th January 2021
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Thinking outside the box
December’s GYO Wicked Leeks column is all about how to put your festive cardboard packaging to good use in the garden.
By Sarah Brown - 1st December 2020
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- Nature
- Biodiversity
Don’t be a tidy gardener
November's Grow Your Own Wicked Leeks gardening column is all about how to ignore the urge to tidy gardens as many wildlife species prepare their nests for winter.
By Sarah Brown - 2nd November 2020
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The dark secrets of leafmould
This month’s GYO Wicked Leeks column explores how autumn leaves make one of the best free soil improvers.
By Sarah Brown - 2nd October 2020
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- Diversity
- Environment & ethics
Wanted: Female leaders
For International Women’s Day, social advocate and environmentalist Jennie Stephens tells Anna Turns why diverse leadership can unlock social and climate justice.
By Anna Turns - 7th March 2021
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- Ethical business
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
UK banks linked to deforestation, report finds
Barclays, HSBC and NatWest are among UK banks found to be linked to deforestation in Brazil as spotlight on unethical finance grows.
By Jack Thompson - 4th March 2021
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- Food waste
- Technology
Best apps to help you cut food waste
From community food sharing or family meal planning to buying a ‘Magic Bag’ of leftover food from your favourite café – read our round-up of the best food waste apps and resources.
By Becky Blench - 4th March 2021
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- News from the farm
- Ethical business
'When we whistle, you jump'
As we became employee owned and I renounced control, protection of suppliers was written into our founding documents; last month, this was crystalised into a new Supplier Charter.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 4th March 2021
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- Food waste
- Climate change
Confessions of a kitchen bin
Environmental journalist Anna Turns weighed her household waste after a week before setting a mission to reduce it with the help of tips and tricks from food waste experts.
By Anna Turns - 2nd March 2021
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- Biodiversity
- Climate change
- Environment & ethics
Caterpillars and tackling the biodiversity crisis
A caterpillar spotted while gleaning a field for leftover crops sparked a conversation around the connection between species, writes Chantelle Norton.
By Chantelle Norton - 2nd March 2021
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