THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Permaculture Magazine
Do any of you read Permaculture Magazine? We have just found out about it and are very excited to …
Recycle Your Plant Pots
How many plant pots do you have in the shed? It is normally quite a few, once you dust off the spider webs and take a really good look! Some estimates in the media equate the figure to be 5 million redundant plant pots sat in homes across the UK. That is a lot of plastic that has no use, and cannot be recycled. Until now, that is… At Modern Mint we sell a few eco-friendly products that re-use these plastic plant pots. Have you seen our stylish clocks? We also do a brilliantly helpful set of plant labels, both …
International Compost Awareness Week
“Compost-making doesn’t need to be hard work, costs almost nothing, and the only secret ingredient you need is patience.” Ken Thompson, botanist and author of Compost. Run by Garden Organic, International Compost Awareness Week aims to help people who don’t compost learn how to do it. Join a compost group for International Compost Awareness Week. For a really quick guide on how to compost, here it is: Take something that can rot. Put it into a pile outside with other materials that have the ability to rot. Leave it there (as Ken Thompson said in the quote above, ‘patience is …
Great Nature Writing
Here are a few recommendations for great nature writing – some are free, some will take you elsewhere to buy the book… All are well worth reading though, as they don’t just write about nature – but politics, capitalism, the economy and romance too… The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism Dying Reason 2: Damage Built Up in the Natural World There is no such thing as an economy that exists without the physical world. The delusional idea that markets are separate from nature has guided mainstream economic policy for a long time — and now we are seeing the consequences in mass …