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Dalston Curve Garden reopens with call to help its crowdfunder hit £100k target

Much-loved beauty spot gradually returns to normal service as it nears its fundraising goal

Author: Hackney Citizen

Dalston Curve Garden reopens with call to help its crowdfunder hit £100k target

The Citizen Gardener: ‘It’s time to start planning’

Kate Poland on seed-saving and experimentation

Author: Kate Poland

The Citizen Gardener: ‘It’s time to start planning’

Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley: ‘It has never been more critical to fight the marketisation of green spaces’

The local writer on how lockdown has brought into focus the importance of our parks, and why we must do all we can to protect them from privatisation

Author: Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley

Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley: ‘It has never been more critical to fight the marketisation of green spaces’

The Citizen Gardener: ‘Be radical and grow your own food’

Kate Poland on how we can take advantage of the increased interest in food-growing during lockdown

Author: Kate Poland

The Citizen Gardener: ‘Be radical and grow your own food’

The 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

Author: Kate Poland

The Citizen Gardener: ‘I’m steering clear of garden centre plants’

The 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

Author: Kate Poland

The Citizen Gardener: ‘It’s time for the untidy to have a go’

Hackney gardeners spring into action to bring nature’s tranquillity to the city

From a tropical backyard hideaway featured on tonight’s Gardeners’ World to community-run vegetable patches, Hackney residents are showing off their green fingers in the spring sunshine

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fresh from starring in Gardeners' world, we have some shots of Mike Spezzano's 'exotic Dalston oasis'. Photographs: Mike Spez

Garden variety: a look at the Geffrye Museum’s plans for their grounds this month

The front and period gardens of Hoxton’s Geffrye Museum will be as busy as ever during next year’s renovation. Ahead of that, we look at what’s happening there this month

Author: Hackney Citizen

A period of calm: The Geffrye Museum period gardens in summer. Photograph: Mandy Williams

Hackney author looks at the gardens of the British working class

Are we a nation of gardeners? asks Margaret Willes in her new book

Author: Hackney Citizen

Dig for victory! Hoxton micro-allotments let residents grow own vegetables

Burgeoning community gardens movement takes another step forward as vacant inner-city plots dished out

Author: Hackney Citizen