Gardening

The theme for our Aug/Sept 16 edition is roots. Want to know how to honour grandparents, preserve memories and revive the lost art of letter writing? This edition is packed with articles to help you on your way. We also check out schools where your child can learn real survival skills such as how to make shelter and light a fire. And offer you 12 wild camping experiences in some of the most stunning places in the UK. Plus meet families who’ve taken to the road and are living their dream, the mum who home educates from a tiny house and the homebirth advocate who is on a mission to change maternity care in the UK.

Lisa Hallden shares how gardening for the family’s vegetable needs can be hugely rewarding from the sprout of the first seed to the picking of the harvest

There is nothing as enjoyable as pottering around your garden, popping things into your mouth as you go. Although you can buy a great variety of fruit and vegetables in the shops all year round, they never taste as good as when they’re home-grown, ripe and warmed from the sun, and plucked straight from the branch or stem. Frances Tophill tell us how to get started in growing your own food.

The beautiful seventy-first edition of The Green Parent magazine has the theme Bloom. Get all your pregnancy questions answered with our Green Guide to Pregnancy and find out about the very best family festivals taking place all over the UK. It's packed with inspiring content from forward thinking folks on how to unleash your creativity, take magical nature adventures, go plastic free and much more.

The Feb/Mar 2016 edition has a theme of life-changing experiences. Think how to strengthen your body, how to take a year off and go traveling with kids and one family’s story of switching to home education after school. Want to find out how to get your hands on this gorgeous mag? Read on...

Birch, the first tree in the Celtic Ogham, is symbolic of new beginnings. Its time runs from 24 December to 20th January. Check out these ways to harness some of the magickal powers with a cleansing tonic and a birch broom.

Glennie Kindred helps us mark the winter solstice with our families. The winter solstice falls in the heart of the winter on the shortest day and the longest night of the year. This special festival is an opportunity in our busy lives to put aside some time to pause, to appreciate the stillness and rest that is the gift of midwinter, to reflect on the old year that is finishing and to look forward with hope for the new year about to begin.

Already feeling a bit ragged by the annual build up to those few days? It’s amazing the pressure we put ourselves under to make them memorable and perfect in every way.

A place to follow the changing seasons, a nature table can be used to mirror the outside world in a cosy corner of your home. This creative pastime encourages us to live in harmony with the rhythm of nature, and for small children it can offer a real sense of security. This is the beginning of a series of articles on creating your own seasonal table.

It’s great when you rustle up a delicious meal from cheap and easy ingredients. Kale is one of those ingredients that costs very little but can really enrich a soup, salad, stir fry or stew. Plus this green leafy vegetable from the Brassica family, is packed with vitamins and minerals that will boost your family’s health. It’s also a vegetable that is readily available during the darker months of winter – perfect for fending off cold weather infections. Psychiatrist and author of Fifty Shades of Kale, Drew Ramsey, has this to say about the wonder vegetable: “Nothing is sexier than a sharp mind atop a lean, healthy body. Few foods are able to deliver this promise like kale. She is the ideal plant in many ways: beautiful, versatile, nourishing, and downright delicious.”