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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

Your most common questions about home composting answered by experts

Tami Lynn Kent explains how reconnecting to the wild feminine within can help us feel more alive and unleash creative energy

In a world where back gardens are becoming a luxury, many families are using their allotments as a place of solace or leisure space. Green Parent reader, Marianne Hopwood has had hers for two years. As well as growing a rainbow of crops, she involves her boys (now six and four) in the upkeep of the plot

Rebecca Ward discovers that involved children in the land at school can benefit not only their health but schoolwork too

Richard Reynolds has been surreptitiously weeding and seeding London’s neglected flower beds, roundabouts and patches of scrubby land since 2004, and now spearheads Britain’s Guerrilla Gardening movement. We spoke to him to find out how families can make their patch of the city more beautiful

Pembrokeshire’s glorious, uncrowded beaches, rich history and teeming wildlife make it the perfect family holiday destination. Here are five heavenly places to stay.

On average, £3,500 worth of a child’s wardrobe ends up in a landfill. Although babies and children grow out of their wardrobe unsurprisingly quick, many items of clothing that get thrown away have barely even been worn says Lucy Estherby

Experts share their advice on how to turn a small area into a successful vegetable patch

‘Connecting People to Nature’, the theme for World Environment Day 2017, implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth that we share.