Posts Tagged ‘Kate Poland’
The 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: ‘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 MoreDaubeney Primary’s outdoor classroom moves a step closer after £1,000 pledge from Mayor of London
The school is hoping to transform an underused part of its playground and now needs just £800 to get the project off the ground
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 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 MoreSmashing success: 10xGreener’s depaving event gives Hackney neighbourhood a lift
A team of volunteers broke up concrete and brick to make way for plants and wildlife for ‘Nature is Smashing’ get-together
Read MoreSmash up paving and make space for nature at groundbreaking 10xGreener event
‘If a lot of people make a little space, we can make a difference’, says postcode gardener Kate Poland
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘You don’t need a big space’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland has a few tips and tricks for growing in confined conditions
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 MoreUK’s first ever postcode gardener gets to work in Homerton
Award-winning grower Kate Poland picked to beautify E5 over the next year
Read MoreOver 50 sign-ups for Hackney’s community garden manifesto – as council offers to meet organisers
Growers across the borough are uniting in an effort to protect open spaces from development
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