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To support our goal of city wilding, we visit other urban and rural planting projects to hear about their ideas and gain inspiration.

We also share tips, thoughts and pics on this blog, and will document our commissioned projects here.

What is permaculture?
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What is permaculture?

In simple terms, permaculture can be described as a way of working with natural processes and patterns to develop ecologically harmonious, efficient and productive systems which produce a range of benefits or “yields”.

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The urban agricultural revolution
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The urban agricultural revolution

Read Growing Cities, Leanne’s report for the Churchill Fellowship about her trip to the US and Canada to explore food growing in the city.

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Heat your greenhouse with leaves
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Heat your greenhouse with leaves

Ingenious guerrilla and street gardener Andy Vassallo of Spring Garden Nursery in Vauxhall reveals how to use composted leaves to heat your greenhouse.

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Toronto rocks in the green world
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Toronto rocks in the green world

Toronto is one the most multicultural cities in the world – 60 per cent of its population being born outside of Canada – and this is very much reflected in the food it grows.

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Scything
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Scything

Wilder had a crash course in scything this month at beautiful Fishponds Park, where we cut the hay meadow.

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So green Montréal…
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So green Montréal…

Montréal is a deep green city. We can learn a lot from the people and organisations working to make it an even better place to live and work.

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Planting wildflowers
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Planting wildflowers

Wilder have been sowing the north concourse at Tate Modern with beautiful shady wildflower seed. Here’s our brief guide to planting seed.

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Make a biodegradable wreath
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Make a biodegradable wreath

Make a festive wreath to hang on the door; when the season is over it can go into your garden waste collection, or onto the compost heap.

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On plants and plastic
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On plants and plastic

When we started our wildlife gardening social enterprise, the last thing we wanted to do was contribute to the deluge of plastic in landfill, the oceans and even our bodies. But the gardening industry seems locked into an unhappy love affair with plastic, one that is hard to break.

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‘The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.’

— Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain