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Embracing Sustainable Gardening in 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes In today’s ever-changing world, the importance of sustainability is growing. A quick search on Google Trends for “sustainability” shows a graph that has been steadily increasing for years. More people than ever before are looking for ways to live more harmoniously with nature, and gardening offers a unique opportunity to do just that. As we…

Green Gardeners Guild Chat With: @gardening_in_the_shires

Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome back to another edition of the Green Gardener’s Guild chats with our favourite gardeners in our community. We’re almost at the end of the year – and what a year it’s been for us all! Thankfully the weather hasn’t quite turned as chilly as we all fear for our gardens and for our slip-free…

Green Gardener’s Guild Chat With: @theaccidental_gardeners

Reading Time: 8 minutes Welcome back to another edition of our Green Gardener’s Guild – we’re delighted to have you back! As we move ever closer to winter, we are all looking for ways to keep our gardens safe and protected from the frost. Whether that is by sheltering those more fragile plants or laying down some Coco Chip…

Sustainable Christmas coir doormats

Reading Time: 6 minutes Give an eco-friendly welcome with sustainable festive doormats If you’re trying to do right by Mother Earth this Christmas, you probably think long and hard about your home décor purchases for the season. We’ve pinned down the best options for sustainable front door mats, from rubber backed to biodegradable, with the best Christmas doormats available…

Green Gardeners’ Guild Chat With: Life_on_the_lot

Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome to another exciting edition of our bi-weekly Green Gardener’s Guild chats – this time catching up with one of our favourite allotment owners! Jen from life_on_the_lot was kind enough to sit down with us for a little time this week to tell us all about her allotment and her experience. We won’t lie –…

Green Gardeners’ Guild Chat With: @pumpkins_etc

Reading Time: 7 minutes Welcome back to another edition of our Green Gardeners Guild fortnightly chats with some wonderfully inspirational gardeners! This week, we caught up with Kate from pumpkins_etc on Instagram. We were inspired by not only her wonderful allotment, but her fantastic eco-friendly messages that she commits to. Take it away and tell us all about yourself…

Green Gardener’s Guild Chat With: @littlegreengem_

Reading Time: 6 minutes Welcome back to your fortnightly catch-up with Coco&Coir and our wonderful Green Gardeners here at our Guild! It’s been quite the adventure through summer with our gardeners, and as we swiftly enter Autumn with Halloween on the horizon, we have yet another lovely green and growing garden to take a look around. In this catch-up,…

Green Gardener’s Guild Chat With: @myjourneyintogardening

Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome to your next edition of our Green Gardener’s Guild Chats – this time with a fantastic allotment owner, Ana from @myjourneyintogardening. We wanted to catch up with Ana and see just how she has been growing her allotment. As a beginner to her allotment, there is work to be done – and we are…

Green Gardener’s Guild Chat With: Third_Floor_Garden

Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the reasons that Coco&Coir created our compressed coir bricks was to save space for homeowners and gardeners who simply don’t have the space to store bulky gardening wares. Our easy-to-store coir is a perfect fit for those who are gardening in smaller spaces and containers – just like this week’s featured gardener we…