Bokashi uses microorganisms and bacteria to breakdown food in an anaerobic environment, watch this short film to learn how to make your own.

If you have enjoyed the composting series and begun to set up a wormery have a watch of the next installment from our expert John, if you have any questions about your compost or wormery we would love to hear from you. Please comment below and we'll be in touch. #gardening #compost #wormery #workingfromhome

Worms aren’t really very picky diners. They’ll eat most organic vegetable matter and about half their own body weight a day.

Anyone can compost. When we think about composting, most people imagine great big industrial units full of dump-trucks processing what everyone left over from dinner that week. But composting is dead simple – it’s just the controlled decomposition of dead stuff. It’s happening in your black bin bags right now. However, when you compost at home, you’re capturing the good stuff from the waste and recycling it into growing new things, as opposed to letting it rot and clog up lan

Composting can help with biodiversity. By making a compost heap, you are creating a living, breathing biosphere.

If you’ve been into Sainsbury’s or Tesco in the last few weeks, you’ll have seen something that you may have never experienced in the UK before – empty shelves. We’ve all become too used to being able to eat strawberries in December and choosing between eight different varieties of apple. Unlike most of the world, we have in normal circumstances overflowing supermarket shelves and naturally assume that food supplies are plentiful and reliable – until they aren’t that is. A lo

If NASA uses horticulture to help with astronauts’ mental health, then those of us that just watch Star Trek, can surely benefit as well.

Hi, Seeing that we’re all going to house-bound for a while, many of us will be looking through grimy windows into that space called the back yard in the coming weeks. Yes, gyms, cafes, restaurants are all lockdown now, but that area behind of or in front of our house can now double for all these functions: exercise (one-hour, mind!), al fresco dining or just sitting down with a nice cup of tea and a few biscuits. Even if you live in an apartment, you may have access to a balc