Into the wild

IT’S midsummer, and this is usually the season when gardens are supposed to look their best – brimming with colour, buzzing with life, weed-free and calm, relaxing places for lounging with friends or

Broadcaster Zoe Ball says she has been filling her new-found freedom since leaving BBC Radio 2 with time spent gardening. And she’s not the only one who loves to pull on their gardening gloves and get

Campaign urges government and councils to ramp up community food growing, reports Ian Hodgson

Four years ago, Joy Lewty, 62, from Garforth, Leeds, was handed a pack of seeds. That simple gesture set in motion a chain of events that would change her life.

Your hard work in the garden is paid back this month – but keep on pruning and planting to enjoy even more fruits from your labour

The theme for this year’s National Allotments Week, from 11 to 17 August, is Wellbeing. Five women reveal how their lives have changed for the better by spending time on their plot