In the spirit of the old adage, “A picture speaks a thousand words”, I would like to share this picture with you:

I was at the London Permaculture Festival last weekend, and it was truly wonderful to see children being ‘free range’, learning about chickens, composting, bee-keeping, and lots of cool stuff to build a greener, kinder and more sustainable planet.

The folks from the Seed Saving Network was handing out free seeds and I came home with hollyhock as well as callalloo (never heard of them before) seeds:

This is the whole ethos behind this Kickstarter campaign: it is not to raise £2000, but to engage children in gardening during this year’s summer holidays. There is a whole tribe of us doing this already – please join us and be part of the movement!

The best thing is, you don’t need a garden to start gardening. Here’s the baby carrots I am growing on my dining table!

In this book, you will learn how to grow vegetables from the bits that you would normally throw away.

Please support this Kickstarter campaign. £5 gets you the e-book that you can gift as many people as you wish. By sharing this email, you are helping the campaign massively to achieve its goal. Please click on this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cheeseplantbooks/handbook-for-budding-little-gardeners?ref=user_menu

Please join this movement!

This is the book website: Handbook for Budding Little Gardeners