Greenpeace has just published an EU Pesticide Blacklist, which includes over 500 active substances of pesticides and herbicides which are currently approved by the EU. It includes the herbicide glyphosate. Of these 520 substances, 209 are considered are potential risk to human health and the environment.
Exposure to oilseed rape crops which have been treated with neonicotinoids has been linked to the long-term population decline of wild bee species across the English countryside, according to research published yesterday by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH).
Garden Organic's work with Golding Homes in Maidstone has received two prestigious awards in the Kent Housing Group Excellence Awards 2016.
With our 2016 members' experiments well under way we thought we'd update you on how we're getting on with the three experiments here at Ryton Organic Gardens.
As we're starting to put together the 2018 Heritage Seed Library Catalogue, we're on the look out for members wanting to share their excess seed with other members.
Garden Organic's Master Composters are urging consumers to 'Go Compostable' if they are buying disposable cups for their picnics and BBQs this summer.
This National Allotments Week (8-14 August 2016) Garden Organic is celebrating the inspirational organic allotments cared for by our members, supporters, volunteers and staff across the country.
To celebrate the Food Growing Schools: London’s Growathon – a campaign that aims to get 50,000 pupils involved in food growing by the end of the summer term – international charity Trees for Cities ran a short film competition for schools to showcase their food growing activities.
Garden Organic is one of 84 organisations who have signed a letter to David Davis, MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, and Theresa May, MP, Prime Minister, to stress the important implications of Brexit on food and farming.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, opened the doors of City Hall to welcome six London schools to hold their very own Schools Marketplace on Thursday 14 July 2016.