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  1. Hands holding a tray of organic vegetables including rainbow chard, tomatoes and squashes.

    Garden Organic team up with Naturally Good Food

    We’re pleased to announce a new partnership with Naturally Good Food - the online wholefoods, organic and 'free from' specialists!

  2. Master Composters Cumbria at event

    Calling all Cumbrian Composters!

    Garden Organic, the national charity for organic growing, is thrilled to be expanding its nationally recognised volunteer Master Composter programme in Cumbria thanks to funding from Cumbria County Council. The Master Composter programme is part of the council’s strategy to reduce the burden of waste from the county, by teaching more people how to compost their own waste at home.

  3. Peter Melchett

    Peter Melchett- one of the organic movement's leading voices

    Garden Organic would like to echo the tributes made to organic campaigner, Peter Melchett, who died last week.

  4. Hands holding a tray of organic vegetables including rainbow chard, tomatoes and squashes.

    Places available for Certificate in Organic Horticulture, last chance to sign up!

    Following a successful first year, horticultural education and training experts, The BEST in Horticulture Group will be running their Certificate in Organic Horticulture again, starting this autumn.

  5. Heritage seed library tour

    Heritage Seed Library features on BBC Gardeners World

    Thursday's episode of BBC Gardeners World included a feature on our Seed Guardian Adam Alexander and his role preserving heritage veg through the Heritage Seed Library.

  6. Bumblebee on Ajuga Reptans

    Study shows bee develop preference for pesticides

    Bumblebees acquire a taste for pesticide-laced food that can be compared to nicotine addiction in smokers, say scientists. The more of the nicotine-like chemicals they consume, the more they appear to want, a study has shown.

  7. Recyclable plant pots

    Recyclable plant pots - are they the answer?

    Plastic pollution has been a high-profile issue in 2018, and the ubiquitous black plant pot is one of the worst offenders. Many garden centres are now planning to replace them with plastic that can be recycled.

  8. Seeds in the Heritage Seed Library

    What can seed saving do for you?

    Seed saving is often viewed as a bit of a dark art even amongst those that are experienced at growing their own food. However, it seems that this practice is more widespread than we believed ...

  9. Flowers in greenhouse

    Garden Organic celebrates another successful year in its 2017 Annual Review

    We're thrilled to share the successes of another productive year through our 2017 Annual Review, sent to Garden Organic members at the beginning of the month.

  10. person in white suit spraying weed killer on plants.

    Monsanto loses court case concerning the safety of glyphosate

    Monsanto has lost a landmark trial in San Francisco, when it was found that a former school groundskeeper developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a result of using Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup.