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Rosie Boycott

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There's more to saving the planet - and our city - than switching off the TV and changing lightbulbs

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Roof gardens are becoming increasingly popular

Like many Londoners I've been to Kensington Roof Gardens and marvelled at its fountains and lawns, rose beds and even flamingos

Local vegetables that can be delivered to your door

The most popular vegetable box schemes in London are all currently, provided by growers whose farms are a long way from the capital

Keeping bees is a real buzz

Bees in the capital produce some of the country's best-flavoured honey, thanks to the huge variety of flowers that grow here

An apple a day? Let's hope so

Apple days, now happening across the capital, celebrate and reclaim what used to be perhaps the national fruit.

Size matters when it comes to allotments

Ten years ago, councils couldn't find enough tenants but today, all across London, there are waiting lists for allotments

Green fingers are spreading across the pond

During his trip to the US this week, our grow-your-own Mayor lobbied his counterpart in New York on the value of growing food in the heart of the appropriately monikered Big Apple.

A garden - just what the doctor ordered

Sitting in the quiet of the Thrive Garden in Battersea Park this week it was easy to imagine I was in the heart of the country

Grow your own: transforming skips into vegetable beds

The imaginative company Global Generation has transformed disused skips into vegetable beds, using an ingenious design.

Grow your own: we need steady capital growth

From 10-16 August the Allotment Society is holding an open week and allotments all over the capital will be opening their gates

Bright future for royal parks allotments

Rosie Boycott joins Michel Roux Jnr, Tom Aikens and Atul Kochar to plant this year’s crops in the St James’s Park allotment

Are there no-go areas for veg?

Rosie Boycott asks if it's safe to grow vegetables by the side of busy roads or railways

Bringing people together with the power of food

How well do you know your neighbours? Currently, well over three-quarters of a million people across Britain have signed up to hold their own Big Lunch and here in London there are 1,400 already registered

Grow your own - contain your enthusiasms

Last year a survey into children and growing-your-own found that an astonishing 93 per cent of six-to nine-year-olds who grow veg go on to nag their mothers into changing what they eat

London is full of people growing their own produce

London is full of people wanting - and succeeding - to grow their own. Whether it's in a window box or by turning previously derelict stretches of land into vegetable growing plots where people can garden together, food is a great uniter

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