TODAY’S BLOG IS FROM TARA LISSNER @MYSWISSGARDEN. There is something magical about seeds, these tiny little hard seeds filled with the potential to bring food and flowers to your table and make your heart sing a little. The most difficult decision is to choose what to plant. There are so many possibilities and the range of seeds...
Learn from @Captain.compost about how easy it is to get started! To start a worm bin, all you need is: a container bedding air food worms – not just any worms but worms that feed at the surface or in existing compost heaps. Normal earthworms would die. The most popular worms are Eisenia Fetida aka...
Spring flowers are such a wonderful way to bring a sense of renewed positivity into the home once the Christmas decorations come down. They bring in fresh beauty and scents into the house and they signal the promise of new life with Spring arriving soon. What better way to start the New Year than bringing...
We love these natural decoration ideas. Use them alongside your favourite shop-bought ones or give them to friends. Not only do they look beautiful, they smell wonderful too! Slices of dried orange or lime can be wired together and placed on your tree or Christmas wreath, like in this photo. Pine cones look very pretty with...
Christmas can be a magical time of year, and this year take the opportunity to make it even more magical by making it more home-made. Replacing shop-bought with home-made is not only more environmentally-friendly, but it also gives us more of a chance to relish the scents and smells of the festive season. It also gives us a wonderful opportunity...
The change of season is the perfect time to give your wardrobe a deep clean and a fresh make-over. As the day’s get cooler and the nights grow longer, there’s no better feeling than finding a much-loved cosy jumper and snuggling up in it again. So here’s a quick guide for how to prepare your wardrobe for the...
In the UK alone, the equivalent of 108 million rolls of wrapping paper are thrown away every year. This on top of the packaging that is thrown away from toys and gifts, means there are around 100 million bin bags full of waste thrown into landfill every year. So on top of choosing eco gifts,...
Do you ever wonder what to do with packaging and wrapping that you have around the house? At this time of year, you may find yourself with lots of extra items of packaging at home. Leftovers from the gifts received or purchases made over the festive period. Rather than sending them to be recycled, how about seeing...
Many of us use only 20 – 30% of our wardrobe. We tend to go back to a few items that are in recent circulation. This leaves up to 80% of our clothes untouched. We are often tempted by quick-fix purchases to change our look or keep up-to-date with fashion trends. But there’s often more than...
Did you know that 60% of the clothes worn worldwide are made with some form of plastic? Man-made fibres such as polyester, nylon and acrylic are a product of crude oil. Clothes made from them will often end up in landfill where, because the materials are synthetic and cannot degrade through natural processes such as...
