Repairing items instead of replacing them is good for the planet, good for your wallet and good fun! There are many ways to give your broken belongings a new lease of life but repair cafés and clubs where volunteers share their skills are becoming increasingly popular. Some specialise in items such as clothes or electricals, and others are more general. Here are some repair events in our local area: · Mend It! Textile repair club, The Hearth, Horsley, 4th Tues of eac

Most garden centres now sell peat-free compost. However, some obtain plants that are already potted up from elsewhere, in places like Holland. The RHS publish a list of nurseries that are 'peat-free'. They are: Northern Ark Nursery, Morpeth (online only) Polonium Planters, Trimdon, Co Durham The Backyard Larder, Yorkshire (online only, specialising in perennial vegetables) The Little Green Plant Factory, Woodmansley, Yorkshire Click here to visit our ever-growing list of

Moth facts : - there are about 2,500 species in the UK - most of the caterpillars we find in the garden are probably going to become moths - moths are important in the food chain, a baby blue tit for example might eat 100 caterpillars a day - did you know the moth called “silver Y” is only 4cm across (wing span) but it travels 1,000 miles to get here in summer - moths are efficient pollinators, probably more efficient than bees - the more we can do for moths, the more we are