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Organic growing can be a fantastic and rewarding pastime - as well as producing lovely flowers and food it can help you relax, take stock and escape the pressures of daily life.

Leicestershire Master Gardeners have been involved in setting up an innovative project in Oadby, where a local multicultural group is coordinating an effort to connect residents at a migrants’ hostel with local people.

For many households, Christmas is a time when more waste than usual is produced. Here we explore a few simple ways to make it a greener Christmas!

Here at Garden Organic, we've had fun dipping into some of our partners' winter gifts catalogue and sending Santa our wish list.

To celebrate World Soil Day, Garden Organic have produced a soil information pack for gardeners. It includes a wealth of information on organic methods, gathered from more than 50 years of our charity’s research and development.

We’re delighted to say that we now have a fantastic range of clothes and accessories now available to buy.

People across Leicestershire are being invited to become “compost ambassadors” to encourage local residents to reduce their waste and help protect the environment.

Things tend to slow up in the garden at this time of year, with the more tedious tidying jobs taking priority, however that need not be the case!

Garden Organic and Norfolk County Council’s Master Composter programme this month won a silver Green Apple award at a prestigious ceremony held at the Houses of Parliament for a joint programme with Love Food Hate Waste.

Dr Peter Clausing, an industry toxicologist who now works for PAN (Pesticide Action Network) Germany, says the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have twisted scientific facts to give glyphosate a clean bill of health.