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It’s a lovely warm September afternoon and I find myself, not for the first time this month, harvesting dry pods of three beans I am growing especially for the Heritage Seed Library.

We've teamed up with Ebury Publishing and Abel & Cole to offer you a range of scrumptious recipes from their new cookbook - How to Eat Brilliantly Every Day. This inspiring book contains a range of tasty organic recipes suitable for all the family!

Walking down to the allotment the scent of autumn is certainly in the air and the first tinges of yellows and red are showing in the deciduous trees. The great sleep approaches, somehow I feel a little bit jealous, and the idea of kipping through the dark months seems a pretty good one to me.

Sarah Brown unpicks the recent worrying research about pesticide residues in garden centre plants...

When Garden Organic teamed with the Three Counties Traditional Orchard project to help restore declining orchards, something very inspiring happened.

The assumption by regulators around the world that it is safe to use pesticides at industrial scales across landscapes is false, according to a chief scientific adviser to the UK government.

The Garden Organic team enjoyed three busy days at the weekend for the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show.

A new report by Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) reveals that the fruit and vegetables given to four-to-six-year-olds via a government scheme aimed at promoting healthy eating habits contained residues of 123 different pesticides.

A fascinating study has shown that different pollinators can affect a plant's development.

Allium leaf miner (Phytomyza gymnostoma) is a serious pest that affects all allium crops. It first arrived in the Midlands in 2002, and since then, has rapidly spread around the country.