Sally Winter If you garden but have no outdoor space, a great idea is to garden on someone else’s land, and share your harvest with them (this works great say for older or disabled people with gardens). You can do this privately or through Lend and Tend. See how to make community gardens safe for…
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A Guide to Greener Roofs, Naturally
Teapot Cottage! (Julie Horner) A roof is simply the top of a building built to protect from rain, snow and sun. Most roofs are flat, but even sloped roofs are designed to let water flow towards a drain, or else they would flood and collapse (flat roofs also have a parapet to stop people falling…
Start Your Own Community Garden
A community garden is a shared space where volunteers get together on unused land to create a beautiful public space, to grow free food for everyone. An ideal way to help in these austere times, community gardens help everyone get fed in your community, and turn ugly land into beautiful spaces that also help wildlife….
How to Find & Rent an Allotment Plot
Melissa Scott-Miller England has hundreds of thousands of allotments, but waiting lists can be as long as 40 years! And a fifth or all people (or 1 in 8 people nationally) have no access to a private garden. And the rising cost of food means even supermarket prices are getting pricey. See how to make…