Dudi, lablab, calaloo, haloon, yard long beans, chana, mouse melon, cho cho, mooli, oca, West Indian thyme… Just some of the tender and exotic crops that over 100 Master Gardeners learned on their extra training days during February 2013. Our volunteers were introduced to vegetables from a wide range of cultures including India, East Asia, [...]

Heritage Seed Library’s Seed Officer, Vicki Cooke, delivered a series of engaging and thought-provoking day-long training courses for Master Gardeners during November 2012. Local venues played host to the dissection of flowers from brassicas, identification of pollination methods, and practical seed preparation. This was all towards learning techniques for helping the households and shared growing [...]

We spent October celebrating harvests with households mentored to grow their own food by Garden Organic Master Gardeners. What a delight. We hosted special events in Warwickshire, Norfolk and London for families and volunteers to share their growing successes and discuss the weather! We’re really pleased with these autumn events following our lively events in spring [...]

Encouraging people to grow more of their own food is not only beneficial to the environment but leads to improved health and wellbeing and creates stronger local communities, according to new Coventry University research released today. In a study of the Master Gardeners programme run by the UK’s leading organic growing charity, Garden Organic, researchers [...]

Garden Organic has sent out exciting questionnaires this week to the Master Gardeners and the lovely people they mentor to grow their own food. We’re working with Coventry University to monitor and evaluate the health, social and environmental impacts of the programme. It’s very exciting with intriguing questions – and already intriguing findings from our autumn [...]