THE MODERN MINT BLOG
This is an interview with Richard from Essex Bees. We did this partly as a follow up to the interview …
Pesticide Free City
What do Paris, Seattle, Tokyo, Toronto and Portland all have in common? They are pesticide free cities. This is an amazing idea, one supported by River of Flowers in the UK. Basically, it wants people to stop deliberately putting poisons and toxins into our environment. To see what happens when you stop using pesticides, take a look at the Opera House roof in Paris where Jean Paucton, a prop man now in his 70’s, began keeping bees. In the pesticide free city of Paris he received twice the yield of honey than he did from his hives in the countryside. Perhaps it …
Organic is Different
Here is the post Organic is Different from the Soil Association, talking about how the way your food is farmed makes a difference to its quality. Worth a read? Definitely. Change your attitude to organic food? Definitely again. Should you be growing your own? Of course you should! Get out there into the garden and enjoy the sunshine! And if you can’t grow you down food – then why not grow your own organic cut flowers?
Guerrilla Gardening
Today we want to share with you the book On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries by Richard Reynolds, who like us also took part in the Chelsea Fringe this year. “The reason I became a guerrilla gardener is because I love gardening.” What better reason do you need? The term Guerrilla Gardening was coined in the 1970’s by a New York artist, Liz Christy. The ‘Green Guerillas’, as they were known, began gardening on abandoned lots – to beautify the spaces around them, for food, for the health benefits, to express themselves (this was New York, after all) …