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Welcome to Modern Mint, for home and garden. We never intended to be a shop. We started as a garden design …
Soil Is Vital To Life
The Soil Association, founded 70 years ago by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists, are a charity dedicated to promoting organic food and sustainable land use. They aim to tackle climate change, work with farmers to improve their growing practises, support high standards of animal welfare and give everyone access to food that is healthy and organically grown. What is not to like about a charity that does this? Some of the Soil Association’s past campaigns have included: Not In Our Bread – a movement to stop weedkiller being used on wheat crops. We have previously worked in the …
How To Be An Organic Gardener
How Do I Become An Organic Gardener? The boy walked up to his mother, who was slicing into the tall compost heap with her spade. Dotted around the sides of the heap were a few daffodils, about to unfold themselves and shine brightly as the heralds of a warming spring. “Why are you always moving that mud around mummy?” asked the boy. His mother smiled, wiped a glove across her forehead to remove the sweat. “It does look a bit like mud, doesn’t it? But can you see how it crumbles when I pick it up? And can you see the …
Lent for the Gardener
Lent, a Christian religious observance that runs from Ash Wednesday through to Easter Sunday, is a special season for the gardener to – after all, the winter is fighting the onset of spring, the ground is beginning to warm and the daffodils are taking over from the snowdrops to provide a bright fizz of sunshine across the landscape. But the idea behind Lent is important as well. For Christians, Lent is a time to deny something from their normal lives. This is used as a way to prepare for Easter, but also gives space to the observer to consider the way …