Life & Style
VIDEO: How to sprout beans at home
Debbie Mitchener of Cordwainers Grow shows you how to grow your own beansprouts in lockdown
Read MorePeanut butters and Tokyo cherries: Hackney’s street trees are a balm for a city in crisis
According to author Paul Wood, who documents the capital’s trees, the borough ‘truly is London’s urban arboretum’
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘Seeds are now as elusive as Glasto tickets’
Kate Poland on the huge demand for her free seeds and how we can take control of a monopolised supply chain
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘There is no waste in nature’
Kate Poland on how we can reduce rubbish in the garden
Read MorePosing questions: A day out at the Wonder Factory
A 15-room ‘experience’ that has popped up in Dalston seems designed to attract the Insta crowd. So what exactly is it?
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘In nature, plants look after themselves, but people can forget, go away, or just give up’
Kate Poland’s guide to growing in small spaces, based on her first year as the gardener for an entire Hackney postcode
Read More‘Be the difference’ – New Year New You!
Volunteer Centre Hackney is calling for people to get involved in their communities, whether it’s for ‘an hour a week or an hour a month’
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘A lack of plant diversity means one in five species could be under threat’
Kate Poland on the biodiversity crisis, how individuals can plough their own furrow amid the seed industry’s oligopoly, and why sprouts are not just for Christmas
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘An urban garden at night brings wildness and community’
Kate Poland on how developments are disrupting the important balance of natural light and darkness for community spaces, why she’s happier knitting at night, and how a group of local gardeners have put the borough on the map in Europe
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘My friend’s dad used to say a garden is made in winter’
Kate Poland on how to use the cold months to renew your garden, why leaves should be left alone, and how growing spaces can help tackle food poverty
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘I’m steering clear of garden centre plants’
Kate Poland on pesticides, the launch of a gardening union, and putting community spaces on the map
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘Turn dead, grey space into stepping stones for insects’
Kate Poland on green infrastructure and how we can make it work in Hackney and beyond
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘We need to get used to weeds in the streets’
Kate Poland on mulching, plant dyes and the tension between wildlife and tidiness
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘It’s been a joy to see so many people benefit’
Kate Poland bids a fond farewell to Cordwainers Garden, which closes on 5 April after eight bountiful years
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘I’ll put up with being labelled a vandal’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland on smashing up paving and sowing seeds
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘Insects keep the whole lot of us going’
In the first in a new column, award-winning community gardener Kate Poland tells us the dos and do-nothings that can help our insects
Read MoreSt Joseph’s Hospice has been offering Compassionate Community Care since 1905
The Hospice cares for people in East and North East London with life-limiting or terminal illness
Read MoreDriveNow – now in more of London
Join for free and get £20 credit to try flexible car sharing
Read MoreAccessing free care at St Joseph’s Hospice is very simple
Just one telephone call can start the process
Read MoreDriveNow: your flexible car club in Hackney – try it out with 30 free minutes
Find out how you can drive a BMW or MINI in London by the minute, hour or day. Only pay when you drive with everything included
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