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    Gardening for changing times

    Apr 16, 2020 4 minutes
    “Now is the time for us to be aware of the consequences of our actions”

    Lots of us talk about ‘our’ gardens. Not proprietorial perhaps, it’s more a question of seeing their significance purely on a personal scale. What possible effect could what we do within our own small plots have on the bigger picture? How could our practices influence biodiversity or climate change? Yet if you added all our gardens together in the United Kingdom alone, they would cover an area the size of Somerset. What we do, how we garden, is not neutral, it either has a positive or a negative effect on our planet, and there has never been a more important time for us to

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