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Features

Why it’s time to resurrect our heritage veg

With farmers under pressure on all sides, lesser-known and potentially lower yielding heritage varieties can present too high a risk. But what do we risk losing as a result of playing it safe on the plate? asks Nick Easen

Eating and drinking Farming Grow your own Seeds

Opinion

Seed companies took control of our farms – now we’re taking it back

Agroecology Community Farming Seeds

Features

The road to collective action

Activism Community Nature Seeds

Opinion

Practically Radical: Sowing seeds and finding value

In our modern lives cast in the role of ‘consumer’, the real cost and value of food can so easily be obscured from vision; gardening can restore this, writes Poppy Okotcha.

Environment and ethics Grow your own Seeds

Opinion

A Luddite’s ode to diversity in challenging times

I would urge the gardeners amongst you to resist the eugenic rush for genetic uniformity, embrace diversity, and keep the open-pollinated varieties alive.

Lifestyle

Grow a slice of history

Heirloom seeds collected by families over time are a gift from the past to the future and help preserve biodiversity – here’s why and how to save your own.

Lifestyle

Five summer holiday activities for family and nature

From DIY seed bombs to den making or ‘fairy gardens’ – explore nature with children over summer with these top five activity ideas.