Nottingham Organic Gardeners

Wilkinson St Nottingham, NG8 5FL

Welcome to Nottingham Organic Gardeners. 

 We are a voluntary organisation, a friendly group in Nottingham, open to all.

 We aim to promote organic and sustainable gardening, and a more localised food culture. 

 We have an Organic Demonstration Garden at Whitemoor Allotments in Nottingham and hold regular talks, workshops and events with an organic theme. 

 Please note we cannot endorse or recommend specific gardening suppliers, businesses or growers.

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'Responsible Sourcing of Growing Media' with Catherine Dawson (online talk via Zoom)

Learn how to choose the most environmental peat-free composts.

BOOK YOUR PLACE FOR THIS TALK AT THE SHOP FOR JUST £2 (FREE FOR MEMBERS)

No keen gardener can be unaware of the call to stop using peat. It is an issue that has been raging within professional horticulture for more than three decades. But although companies such as Melcourt have been blazing a trail with very effective peat-free products since the 1990s, it is only in recent years that peat and its problems have come to the attention of the wider gardening public.

The Responsible Sourcing Scheme looks at seven different aspects of ingredients from an environmental and social impacts standpoint:

  • How much energy is used to both make it and transport it?

  • How much water is required to prepare it?

  • What impact does it have on habitat and biodiversity?

  • Is it renewable?

  • Resource use efficiency – how much waste is created by its manufacture?

  • Does its manufacture cause pollution?

  • What are the social compliance issues associated with it?

Earlier Event: March 8
'Growing Beans' with Susan Young (online talk via Zoom)
Later Event: November 8
Slugs and Snails: Pests and Pals (FREE ONLINE ZOOM TALK)