Practicing your green thumb can be good for your well-being, a new study revealed. Experts from the United Kingdom found that allotment gardening actually helps increase a person's self-esteem, ease ...

John Soulsby discovered the joys of growing your own at just eight years old, when he cultivated his first dahlias. At 18, he ...

I know I said I would keep my gardening videos shorter after my allotment episode but I got carried away again... :) In this video, winter is just one day off here in the subtropics therefore temps ...

Allotments bring rich harvests of fruit and veg but so often end up functional rather than beautiful to look at. But it doesn’t have to be that way if you use ornamental edibles and pretty, scented ...

New research has found that allotment gardening promotes positive body image, which measures someone's appreciation of their own body and its functions, and an acceptance of bodily imperfections. New ...

An allotment is a great place to grow your own fruits, vegetables, and plants. But some choose to getting growing in their own gardens too if they have the space. It can be incredibly satisfying to ...

Carly Wood works for the University of Westminster. More than half the planet’s population now live in cities, with limited access to the natural world. For Europe and Latin America, the figure is ...

SINGAPORE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rain or shine, every day for the past year, Kanti Kagrana walks a short distance from his son's flat to Singapore's HortPark, a national park where he grows ...

DEMAND for allotments is higher than ever as people look to cut costs by growing their own fruit and vegetables. In an effort to cope with this, councils across south Essex have been checking all ...

I signed up for my London garden allotment so long ago that the application was by post and possibly in Linear B. In my borough of the city, there are about two hundred plots for just under three ...