Sustainability

Last week, one of our Dutch nature-loving colleagues, Tom Huijs, was lucky enough to get his owned personalised peatland lesson where he learnt about everything from moss to restoration. Here is his story.

Happy International Toilet Day! In this weeks blog we come clean about the surprising relationship between lavatories and landscaping.

By definition, soil health means the continued capacity of soil to function as a living ecosystem - a viable community of organisms that sustains plants, animals and humans. From a gardener's point of view this would mean a substrate that sustains healthy and flourishing plants with minimal input like fertilization, raking and weeding. Soil is a natural habitat for numerous micro-organisms - most of which live in air and water pores among the solid mineral and organic particles, and most of which are beneficial for the soil and plant health, although numerous forms of pathogenic soil micro-organisms also exist. Soil micro-organisms include different species of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes, of which the beneficial ones stabilize the soil and they help the water and nutrient cycling, for example by decomposing organic matter. Along with bigger organisms - worms, arthropods, birds and mammals they form the soil food web. A healthy soil food web maintains itself and recycles nutrients and materials effectively.

Meiny Prins and Nina Kinnunen to discuss about growing together for a better future at...

How to achieve a climate change proof value chain? What impact does climate change have...

Speaking at the Grow 21 festival, Dr. Adrie Veeken, Research & Business Developer of Bio-based...

Speaking at the Grow 21 festival, agronomist and landscape consultant Laura Gatti will share her...

In his keynote address, Peter Hendriks, CEO of Hoogendoorn Growth Management, will examine the future...

Environmental biologist and landscape designer Taina Suonio to present new research on roof gardens and...

Nynke Arntzen to speak about sustainable packaging developments at the GROW21 festival How can packaging...