Sustainable Living Articles

Evergreen Christmas Gifts | Potted Rosemary

Evergreen Christmas Gifts | Potted Rosemary

This Christmas encourage your little ones to look beyond the shops and back to nature. Our sustainable rosemary pot is the perfect way to help develop a connection to nature and gift something special and lasting that will be enjoyed for years to come.  🌱 Cut fresh shoot of rosemary  🌱 Remove b...
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Tiny & The House | On Finding Nature

Tiny & The House | On Finding Nature

  This week it is so wonderful to chat with Jacqueline Mercer, the inspiration behind Tiny and the House. Jacqueline is a London based shoe designer and has expanded on this love of design to interiors and gardens. Her London garden looks to me like the ultimate sanctuary. We caught up to discuss...
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Six good reasons to take your kids off-grid this summer | Jessica Hatcher-Moore

Six good reasons to take your kids off-grid this summer | Jessica Hatcher-Moore

Six good reasons to take your kids off-grid this summer   Author Jessica Hatcher-Moore and her husband, the photographer Philip Hatcher-Moore, spent a spring weekend living under canvas with their two young boys at a luxury off-grid hideaway run by Feather Down Farms in Shropshire. It was, in Je...
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Living Wild | Exploring life off the grid with Indigo & Olive

Living Wild | Exploring life off the grid with Indigo & Olive

" The cornerstones of our family are forged of dreams of travelling this beautiful planet with our babies and being able to come back to a place that feels like home. " Chloe Massey, @indigoandolive ~ Interior of their 40ft Arizona Blue Bird School Bus Conversion ~We are so privileged to have a...
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PLANT A SMILE | BE NATURE’S VALENTINE

PLANT A SMILE | BE NATURE’S VALENTINE

"Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature." STEVE MARABOLI  This Valentine share the love far and wide with our 'Plant a Smile'. What could be more uplifting during these endlessly difficult times than sharing love thr...
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FORAGE & CREATE | OPENING AN BUG HOTEL

FORAGE & CREATE | OPENING AN BUG HOTEL

“Everything needs something to hold on to... Sometimes even nature needs help to keep it safe from itself.” TAMSIN CALIDAS, ‘I AM AN ISLAND’   The natural world is overflowing with wonder and amazement and as adults we take so much of it for granted. However, if you slow down and watch your c...
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UNDERSTANDING NATURE | TREES & LEAVES

UNDERSTANDING NATURE | TREES & LEAVES

“As we move away from Slieve Muck, I can feel my feet treading more lightly and my heart rate start to slow - my anxiety about school flowing into the earth.” DARA McANULTY, DIARY OF A NATURALIST The Half Term is upon us, life has returned to a new state of normal and the break from school giv...
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UNDERSTANDING NATURE | A LITTLE DIRT NEVER HURT

UNDERSTANDING NATURE | A LITTLE DIRT NEVER HURT

"Teaching children about the natural world should be one of the most important events in their lives."  THOMAS BERRY
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UNDERSTANDING NATURE | GARDEN BIRDS

UNDERSTANDING NATURE | GARDEN BIRDS

"In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence." ROBERT LYND The beauty of the moment we find ourselves in currently is the opportunity to stop and listen. These are challenging times we are living through. We are cooped up in spaces together, in degrees of close confine...
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SEEKING SUSTAINABILITY | LAUNDERING YOUR CLOTHES TOWARDS A CLEANER OCEAN

SEEKING SUSTAINABILITY | LAUNDERING YOUR CLOTHES TOWARDS A CLEANER OCEAN

"Water and air,The two essential fluids on which all life depends, Have become Global garbage cans." JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU, OCEANOGRAPHER Plastic pollution in our oceans is more subtle and suffocating than we previously thought. The 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' or 'Pacific trash vortex' as it's...
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Protecting the Planet for the Next Generation

We love support the learning and education or young people in out Nature Directory, which looks in closer detail at the many diversities of nature, from mini beasts, to soaring forests, to the important role that nature plays in child development and mental health. But it goes further than that, and we’re committed with everything we do to make sure we’re making every effort to make sure the planet is happy and healthy for the next generation.

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