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VIDEO: The Citizen Gardener on how to run a wormery
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland shows you how to make compost using worms
Read MoreHackney Citizen wins Independent Community Newspaper of the Year at the national newsawards 2021
Editor-in-chief ‘delighted’ as paper is also highly commended in Niche Market Newspaper of the Year category
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘There is no waste in nature’
Kate Poland on how we can reduce rubbish in the garden
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘There are some inspiring online activities for those who love the outdoors’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland has put together a comprehensive list of websites and organisations providing a virtual escape during lockdown
Read MoreCoronavirus: Citizen Gardener sets up seed giveaway for people who want to grow at home
Kate Poland has filled a donation box at Hackney City Farm with seeds suited to pots and small spaces
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: ‘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: ‘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 MoreUnion of Hackney Gardens calls for more local powers to protect open space
Town Hall insists powers remain at national level as newly-formed Union calls for residents to identify open spaces of ‘importance to them’
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 MoreLemongrass
A Dutch master leads our resident food historian deeper into the world of citrus
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: ‘It’s time for the untidy to have a go’
Kate Poland on a budding union of gardens, the joys of shinrin-yoku, and how you can help nature while getting drunk
Read MoreVIDEO: How to sprout beans at home
Debbie Mitchener of Cordwainers Grow shows you how to grow your own beansprouts in lockdown
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘There’s no such thing as a pest’
Kate Poland on how to create a pest-resistant environment and setting the wheels in motion for a mobile shed in Hackney
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘Much maligned ivy is great for nature’
Kate Poland on the Gardens Manifesto, an outdoor classroom and the benefits of hairy-leaved plants
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 MoreThat’s amaro
Our resident food historian on how, with a bit of love and care, you can lift up the throwaways of citrus fruit – pips, pith, peel and all – to their fresh and bitter best
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