We meet Master Gardeners from our four programmes, showing that whatever the crop, whatever the space, food growing is important for a healthy diet and lifestyle,  learning skills, and bringing people together. Case study 1 – Warwickshire Inspiring people to get growing What better way to inspire people to grow vegetables than bringing them to [...]

MEET four of Britain’s first ‘Master Gardeners’ – volunteers trained by Garden Organic to inspire and support households to grow their own veg. The project follows the success of the charity’s ‘Master Composter Network’ which now has 500 volunteers across the UK. Feature Writer Catherine Vonledebur speaks to the new crop.

Islington Master Gardener Mark found walking with vegetables in London attracts attention. We caught up with him for chat about a recruit excursion. “I took my ‘Pea Shooter’ – a long shallow container for sprouting pea shoots – to a local fair. It sparked lots of conversations about growing pea shoots and gave me the [...]

We’re delighted to showcase our volunteer’s terrific work in the national magazine, Grow Your Own (September edition). We were invited by editor Lucy Halsall to prepare case studies about how Master Gardeners help people and communities grow their own fruit and veg at home and on communal land. See images below. Our thanks to Lucy [...]

Islington Master Gardeners have been out and about, busy promoting local food growing at community events and recruiting their first household to regularly support. This from Laura Burrow: “We donned our Volunteer’s T-shirts and wandered up to the beautiful and gorgeous Culpeper Community Garden on Sunday afternoon. They were holding a plant sale, tea and [...]