The New Nature | writing about wild London
Surely London doesn’t need yet another website about itself – there are already plenty enough. Well, perhaps there’s room for just one more, one that focuses purely on new nature writing about the...
View ArticleInterview | Richard Mabey | shock & awe
A word about the urban wild with naturalist and nature writer Richard Mabey On London It’s changed a lot since I lived and worked there in the 1970s, a lot of places have vanished, most notably under...
View ArticlePolitics | nature, food, fresh air
Lawns left to grow long and living walls; a productive city that’s pesticide free; and air that it’s a pleasure not poisonous to breathe. Continuing the Londonist’s look at the environment as an...
View ArticleChelsea Fringe | trend setters
Starting this Saturday and running at venues across London for three weeks, the Chelsea Fringe is a brand new festival of gardens and gardening. It coincides with the famous Chelsea Flower Show, but...
View ArticleBBC | The Unnatural History of London
It’s taken a while to reach our screens but a BBC Natural World documentary about London has just aired on BBC 2. I worked as a researcher and assistant on the film, which paints a warm-hearted...
View ArticleMy Garden, the City and Me | Rooftop Adventures in the Wilds of London
The aerial edible roof gardening project has been transformed into a book. And you can buy a signed copy for £5 + £2.50 p&p (UK addresses only) My Garden, the City and Me: Rooftop Adventures in the...
View ArticleUrban Agriculture | part eleven | Newcastle
Part eleven of my series for Kitchen Garden about urban agriculture Slap bang in the middle of Newcastle, the Byker Bridge rushes over a valley where a slice of secret countryside thrives. Tucked...
View ArticleUrban Agriculture | part twelve | Glasgow and Edinburgh
The final part of my year long series for Kitchen Garden about urban agriculture “Glasgow, or ‘Glaschu’ in Gaelic, translates as Dear Green Place. Indeed, we have more parks and green space per capita...
View ArticleNew project | the boat garden
I recently started a new garden project, growing plants atop a cruising canal boat. Please visit my boat garden blog, which is charting the floating garden’s progress from barren to beautiful over one...
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