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.
Podcast Interview on the Benefits of Nature on Our Health & Wellbeing
In this short interview with Jon from Arthur Ellis: Mental Health Support we talk about nature and community gardening in Milton Keynes, and all the benefits they can have on our mental health and wellbeing…
Covid-19 Self Care & Community Resources in Milton Keynes
We can’t underestimate the impact of social distancing and self isolation (not to mention the financial burden) that the pandemic is having on people’s health and wellbeing. Milton Keynes NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have these helpful self-care resources to share with us…
Covid-19 Self Care & Community Resources in Milton Keynes
To help with the impact of social distancing and self isolation on people’s health and wellbeing in the wake of the Coronavirus, Milton Keynes NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have shared these helpful self-care resources…