GARDEN ORGANIC

'Garden Organic', formally known as the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), is the UK's leading organic growing charity deadicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.
The organisation will celebrate 50 years at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement in 2008 and has over 40,000 supporters. It has trained over 500 Master Composter volunteers from around the UK to spread the home composting message and runs major research and international development programmes that help commercial growers across the UK and overseas adopt organic methods.
They actively campaign on issues vital to both people and the environment including health, sustainability and climate change, and help children in over 10% of the UK's schools learn about food and organic growing through their free education programme.
As well as its headquarters at Garden Organic Ryton, the charity now runs two other sites, Garden Organic Yalding in Kent and Garden Organic’s walled kitchen gardens at Audley End, Essex in association with English Heritage.
Garden Organic Ryton has over 30 individual gardens in ten acres of beautifully landscaped grounds and boasts Britain’s Best Organic restaurant and the world’s first public biodynamic garden.
The site is also home to the Vegetable Kingdom, an award-winning organic shop and the charity’s renowned Heritage Seed Library, which conserves over 800 varieties of rare vegetable seeds to help protect them from extinction.
Garden Organic Yalding takes visitors on a unique tour through gardening history while demonstrating organic growing techniques in fourteen individual gardens.
Audley End is a glorious Jacobean stately home owned by English Heritage and in 1999 Garden Organic painstakingly restored its walled kitchen garden from an overgrown, semi-derelict state using organic methods.
The charity relies on funds from its supporters and members to carry out its work and, in return, offers a quarterly magazine, members only web pages and information sheets, as well as access to the charity’s dedicated team of advisors who answer more than 5,000 organic gardening queries every year.
In addition, members gain unlimited free admission to the three demonstration gardens together with the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley, Harlow Carr, Rosemoor and Hyde Hall, plus over 20 other gardens across the UK.
Garden Organic’s patron is HRH The Prince of Wales and the charity reaches more than three million beneficiaries across the world.

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★ Garden Organic website