No Mow May
Take part in Plantlife‘s No Mow May to allow wild flowers to bloom in your grass and help pollinators like bees, butterflies, and beetles.
Thank You Olivia
We absolutely love feedback, and especially when it’s constructive, and we can see people engaging with what we’re doing at Planting Up. So when one of the Teaching Volunteers at Ed-leadership reached out to us to tell us about how informative their students had found our resources, and that one of their students, Olivia, had something…
Can British agriculture & farmers achieve Zero Carbon by 2040?
How food can be produced in ways that work closely with environmental concerns for agriculture to help provide solutions to climate change…
The Secret Is In The Soil
Building healthy soil is a crucial foundation for increasing biodiversity and producing healthy food for a more sustainable future…
The Pandemic: A Symptom of a Broken Food System
The pandemic has exposed the fragility of our food system but there is plenty we can do to help build a better food future together…
Mapping Fruit and Veg by Season
This seasonal fruit & veg map covering 200 fruits and veggies across 24 European countries helps us identify what’s in season in Europe, and when.
10 Ways the Pandemic Has Changed Our Relationship with Food
The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed many things, not least our relationship to food and the way we shop, cook and eat it…
Pumpkins!
Save your pumpkin from going to waste. Carve it, eat it, feed wildlife with it and compost it. #NoPumpkinLeftBehind #EatYourPumpkin 2020
Beware: Bitter tasting courgettes, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash & melons can cause food poisoning
Please be alert to an increased risk of “curcurbit poisoning” in the cucurbitaceae family of flowering plants that include courgettes, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash and melon this year…
Shall we do this permaculture course together?
Calling all Planting Up Milton Keynes members… Shall we do this 6-week, online, Introduction to Permaculture course together, as a group? We will learn how to design sustainable ways of living and working, giving us the foundation for the full Permaculture Design Certificate if we choose to go further with the course next year.