The many benefits of reduce, recycle and repair
Kim Stoddart looks at some of the easiest and most rewarding ways to boost your eco-gardener credentials, whilst having fun in the process…
I gardened entirely for free a few years back for my writing in the Guardian. What started out as a ‘can I really do this?’ experiment turned into one of the most empowering and rewarding experiences of my life. What I learnt during this period has informed my more resilient approach to gardening today, even though I enjoy flicking though a gardening catalogue as much as the next person.
The money saving is just one of the many multifaceted perks of learning more make, mend and do on the veg patch. Plastics in particular are, as we now all know, a huge issue with more than 8m tonnes of this discarded material ending up in our seas each year alone. Predictions that if we do nothing about this problem, our oceans will by 2050 contain more plastic than fish have really brought the predicament home hard. Also, unfortunately it has become increasingly cl…
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