Posts Tagged ‘organic’

How to get an allotment with national allotments week

If you haven’t got a garden and fancy a bit of the self sufficient Good Life on our green and pleasant land, then this is your week to get started. It’s National Allotments Week! National allotments week is all about promoting the awareness and availability of allotments. It is also to protect our local allotments.

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Say it with organic, ethical and sustainable UK flowers

Sometimes a girl just wants a vase of fresh flowers to cheer up her home. There is nothing quite so lovely as beautiful colours and a heavenly scent for the feel-good factor in life. Unfortunately, cut flowers, unless home grown, often means thousands of air miles, tonnes of pesticides and dangerous working conditions for farmers…

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Eco friendly and ethical gifts for Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is on March 2nd this year. It’s a time to show that we love our Mother’s for all that they do, and have done for us. If we consider that Mother’s have been worshipped as the creator of life for generations, it seems a good opportunity to support this with ethical and sustainable…

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Ten ethical and sustainable ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day will soon be celebrated with cards, flowers, chocolates, wine, jewellery, perfume, lingerie and expensive restaurant meals. With toxic pesticides, child labour, conflict diamonds, chemical fragrances and huge carbon dioxide emissions, these gifts might speak of romance to your partner, but do they speak of love for the environment and all the people living…

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