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March for Climate Justice: COP26

A number of BOG members took part in the march for Climate Justice on Saturday 6th November in Glasgow, during COP26. This is how they got on.

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Taking the message to Young People

BOG loves young people!

Children make natural gardeners. Organic gardening is good for them in countless ways, from teaching them about how plants grow, to giving them low cost exercise. In the Climate Emergency young people can become ambassadors for organic gardening to reduce carbon emissions and increase biodiversity.

Read on to find out some of the ways BOG already involves the younger generation.

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How Green is your Gardening?

Ever wondered whether your gardening is as green as it could be? Would you like to attract more beneficial wildlife to your garden? Do you think doing things organically is just too difficult and needs loads of extra work? Well, now you can find out! Take the BOG “How Green is your Gardening” Quiz and discover just how sustainable your gardening is, what you’re doing well and where you could do things differently.

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Ways to reduce your carbon footprint in the garden

Although gardening appears to be a carbon-neutral, environmentally-friendly activity, the way we garden and the products we buy do have an environmental impact and add to the carbon released into the atmosphere. In this article BOG’s Lesley Blackthorn explores some of things gardeners can do to reduce the carbon impact of their activities in the garden.

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Zoom with BOG

As we are unable to run our usual winter workshop programme we are trying a series of online meetings using Zoom and although we are new to this game, our first two meetings have attracted good and enthusiastic participants.

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December

Even if it is dark, wet and cold, there are jobs to do inside such as maintaining tools, ordering seeds and checking stored fruit

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Building a hedgehog house

The days are shortening and there’s less to do in the garden, so here, courtesy of Pete Snell, is a quick and easy project to provide a winter shelter for a beneficial garden mammal.

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November

As the growing season comes to an end it is time to plant flower and vegetable bulbs for next year

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October

Autumn may linger in the shape of warm sunny days but beware of night frosts!

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September

As summer draws to a close it is peak picking time in the orchard