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Our Work in 2018 Our Work in 2018 Protecting our Striving for an Inspiring the seed heritage organic future next generation elcome to our review of activities in 3. We will contribute to ongoing research - W2018, the charity’s Diamond Jubilee year. principally through our members’ experiments This review contains a brief summary of our - enhancing these, increasing participation and work supporting more people to embrace sharing results more widely. organic growing. 4. We must influence policy at national level, 2018 saw the Board of Trustees focus on the making sure the definition of organic is not potential sale of Ryton Gardens, to put the charity dumbed down, and campaigning for what we in the best position for a long and fruitful future, know to be right. whilst also preparing the charity’s five year 5. We will manage the charity as efficiently and Strategic Plan to take us forward to 2023. effectively as possible - the better managed we In our Strategic Plan we have outlined the are, the more we all will be able to achieve. organisation’s five priorities to continue to Whilst the Board of Trustees has been planning achieve our mission; that of promoting and for the future, our staff have, as ever, continued advancing the use of organic growing with its to work hard for your charity. Supported by our benefits to plants, people and communities. invaluable volunteers, we have been inspiring A full copy of our strategic plan can be found and teaching people about our passion - on our website (gardenorganic.org.uk/charity- organic and sustainable growing - in settings information) or by request to 024 7630 8210, as diverse as care homes, schools and waste however they are summarised below: disposal facilities. 1. We will extend access to organic horticultural I remain immensely proud of the work of the knowledge across the whole country, as widely charity that we, as members, support, and hope as possible. We know there is increasing interest you are too. Together we are improving our in greater sustainability and we need to be precious planet, one garden at a time. preaching to the unconverted, to help and support people moving towards an organic approach to gardening. 2. We will protect our unique plant genetic resources and biodiversity. Our Heritage Seed Library is a wonderful example of how to Margaret Eyre achieve this in practice. Chair of Trustees Garden Organic - Annual Review 2018 SUPPORT US Designed & Published by Century One Publishing Ltd Garden Organic members play a vital role in supporting our charity’s work. You Inside... could get even more involved in helping 02 Welcome us to spread the word about the many 04 Protecting our seed heritage benefits of organic gardening by: 05 Furthering organic research l joining our Heritage Seed Library 06 Striving for an organic future l making a donation 07 Lifelong learning l volunteering 08 Growing healthy communities To find out more – or for any other enquiry 09 Inspiring the next generation T: 024 7630 3517 10 Improving wellbeing E: [email protected] 11 By the numbers W: gardenorganic.org.uk 12 Thank you 2 - Annual Review 2018 A selection of images from our Diamond Jubilee celebration in May Annual Review 2018 - 3 Protecting our seed heritage Pea Jackson Grey Back ur Heritage Seed Library, (Manchester) and Belmond a poor year for runner beans Ofounded in the 1970s, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons and broad beans, so we will continues to remain as vibrant (Oxfordshire). These partnerships be experimenting with more and relevant as it has ever been highlight the important external isolation cages in 2019 through a number of different conservation work we do to a to protect against extreme initiatives. wider audience and support our temperatures. ambition to see HSL varieties Despite these challenges, we Managing the collection growing in display gardens produced the equivalent of over Following background research across the UK. 24,000 packets of seed! and growing trials we added 9 new varieties to the collection Members’ seed Organic seed networks in 2018 which will now be distribution In 2018 we supported 37 seed conserved and seed stores 155 varieties were shared swaps around the UK, including ‘bulked up’ for future distribution. with HSL members, including Seedy Sunday in Brighton, 10 varieties were removed 11 new and 50 organically helping to raise the profile of our from the collection as they are certified. In total, 3,179 orders work, attract new members and now widely available, or were were processed, equating to support these fantastic initiatives. discovered to be synonymous approximately 19,000 seed As well as sharing seed and with a commercial variety. This packets - all hand packed and information, we also delivered means that we can redirect dispatched by the team and talks to local gardening groups our resources to assessing new volunteers. French bean proved and events throughout the year. donations to the collection, of the most popular vegetable, with which we have around 40 seed on average, one packet included Oak Tree Project samples waiting to be trialled. in every order! We delivered our first two acorn sowing workshops in Heritage across the UK Seed Guardians and collaboration with Warwickshire In 2018 we continued working Variety Champions Wildlife Trust. This Heritage with partners and display Our volunteer Seed Guardians Lottery Funded project with gardens to showcase our and Variety Champions remain Princethorpe Woodlands Living heritage varieties, with particular invaluable in their role as Landcape scheme supports the emphasis on local and historical seed savers for the library. In ancient oak trees at Coombe varieties. In 2018 these included 2018 - a difficult year for many Country Park by collecting Highgrove (Gloucestershire), growers - our Seed Guardians and sowing acorns from these Dumfries House (East Ayrshire), returned seed equivalent to ancient woodlands. This project St Fagans National Museum of 24,600 packets. Overheating will continue over the next History (Cardiff), Ordsall Hall in our polytunnels resulted in two years. 4 - Annual Review 2018 Furthering organic research lthough we have been bitter attracted similar numbers (TRUE Legumes project). In 2018 A researching organic of slugs, so choice of beer isn’t CAWR conducted a second year growing methods for 60 years, important to these gastropods! trial of several HSL broad bean there is always more to discover. varieties alongside commercial Review of 60 years of varieties, as part of a project Members’ Experiments Members’ Experiments comparing nutritional content In 2018 we undertook three The long-term review of Garden and attractiveness to pollinators. members’ experiments; a survey Organic’s Members’ Experiments CAWR also conducted a first of comfrey use, a trial of growing continued throughout the year. year trial of HSL climbing edible lupins, and a test to The main focus was to capture French bean varieties with identify the most effective drink the views, thoughts and ideas of dry bean culinary uses for for trapping slugs. A total of 450 participants, staff and volunteers assessment against comparable members took part from across who have contributed over the commercial varieties. This trial the country. years. These interviews will be remains ongoing. The survey of comfrey use added to the written report due highlighted that people have to be made available in 2019. Growing Health been growing comfrey for a long This project, in partnership period of time; 64% had grown Heritage variety trials with Sustain, has compiled a it for more than 10 years, and The Heritage Seed Library series of case studies to show 37% for more than 30 years. 44% continued to collaborate with how community food growing originally obtained their comfrey Coventry University’s Centre groups have engaged with from Garden Organic or the for Agroecology, Water and public health commissioners and Organic Gardening Catalogue. Resilience (CAWR) and is how community food growing The top two uses of comfrey participating in an EU funded delivers health outcomes, with were to improve soil fertility project to increase sustainable the hope that growing can be (97%) and to attract bees (74%). legume cultivation and integrated into routine health We have frequently revisited consumption across Europe care services. the theme of ‘home grown protein’ and in 2018 focussed on growing sweet lupins. It was a tough growing season, contributing to low yields and, we think, unusually tough beans. This wasn’t a popular crop amongst growers, but it may be worth trying them again when it’s not so dry, and perhaps eating at a younger stage. We remain concerned about their susceptibility to slugs though. The weather also impacted the slug trapping experiment with the very dry season resulting in far fewer slugs. Participants compared water, bitter, lager and other drinks of their choice in Lupins growing at Ryton a ‘beer trap’. Overall, lager and Annual Review 2018 - 5 Striving for an organic future hroughout the year we were through DEFRA, to Parliament of looking at one chemical in T involved in a number of through All Party Parliamentary isolation, rather than exploring activities and campaigns to make Groups, and to local and regional the long-term effects of the the organic voice heard. agencies. We were pleased to cocktail of chemicals used in report that DEFRA Ministers products such as Roundup. Representing confirmed that UK food standards Unfortunately we know that our members will not be lowered in a post- manufacturers have already and supporters Brexit environment. We will developed alternative and Unsurprisingly, 2018 was continue to follow this closely. equally destructive pesticides, dominated by Brexit. We We have further campaigned but each time an issue such as campaigned both individually on a range of issues of specific this appears in the news we and as part of wider organic interest to members, including know that more people turn networks, such as the English around the continuation of the towards the organic way.
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