Small steps to big changes
“Climate change is the biggest challenge that mankind has faced”
Fourteen years ago, almost to the day, I sat at my computer to write an article for this magazine about sustainability in the garden. I confess I had not looked at it, or even remembered I had written it, until preparing for this piece. But the topic of sustainability in our gardens could not be hotter. So, I looked back and re-read it to see what had changed in the past decade and a half. The depressing truth is that the answer is – not much. A lot of talk, some minor action and we are still gardening as though our resources are limitless.
Fourteen years ago, my tone was slightly defensive about climate change,
