Sat 21 Sep 2024, 11:00am – 1:00pm
Private gardens are the third largest UK land use sector, and in urban areas they form 25% of the landscape. Together, gardens have the potential to help mitigate climate change impacts, and also to enrich our increasingly threatened wildlife. With over 20 million people identifying as gardeners, our choices of plants, cultivation techniques, composts, watering, wild areas, and many other details, can make an important difference, locally and nationally.
For example, simply planting another tree will support wildlife, take both carbon dioxide and methane from the atmosphere, and provide cooling shade. Minimising digging and using surface mulch will help put carbon back in the soil. Harvesting and using more rainwater will reduce demand on mains water, which in turn will reduce abstraction and help maintain aquifers.
There are many other inexpensive and simple ways in which you can help your own garden to mitigate climate change, and also enable it to become more resilient, productive and enjoyable. However, you don’t have to do everything all at once – even small changes can bring big benefits locally, across the wider landscape, and beyond….
Expert speaker Clive Boase from Climate Change Gardening talks about how the changing climate is affecting your garden and what you can do about it.
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