THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Looking for products for our shop is a fascinating job – the important questions are: What is it made of? …
Digging Deep In the Garden
This is a review of John Walker’s new book ‘Digging Deep in the Garden’, out now on Amazon… or it can be bought directly from Modern Mint! We have previously featured John on the Modern Mint blog (we called his writing subversive… that’s a good thing…!) It was in an interview we made with him about his work gardening organically at home in Wales. The interview makes for wonderful and inspiring reading… just check out the extract below… “Taking a deliberately earth- and climate-friendly approach… encourages you to garden more laterally, more locally and more gently. Why would you buy a polluting pesticide, …
Organic Gardening
This post on organic gardening started with us chatting to a vegan. He was suggesting that the moment you mentioned to people you were vegan, they labelled you, judged you on the kind of person you are and the problems you would cause them if they invited you to dinner. We feel the same happens when you mention to people you are an organic gardener, or you work your garden on organic principles. They seem to lean away from you, as if you are dirty, and most definitely untidy (who could allow weeds in their garden? And it is no …
Eco-friendly Animals
The question of which animal you should keep as a pet, if you want to tread lightly on the earth, cropped up this week. It is a great question, another part of Modern Living that needs to be questioned and thought through, and was inspired by watching the elaborate and bonkers dog show Crufts. For those of you who don’t know what Crufts is, it is a dog show that allows breeders and handlers to bring their animals together to show off how they look. They get rewarded for being the epitomy of what it is thought the breed should look like …