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Hedges dramatically cut roadside pollution

07/12/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

The University of Surrey – specifically Professor Prashant Kumar – have just completed a study to find out whether roadside planting (hedges and/or trees) can reduce road air pollution. (You can read about it in detail in Atmospheric Environment here.) And, as my good friends Tom …

Category: Allergies, Environmental Issues, Gardens, Michelle's gardenTag: air pollution at roadsides, Atmospheric Environment, environmental pollution, hedges reduce air pollution at roadsides, Nigel Clarke, Nigel Clarke at Green Legacy Guernsey, Professor Prashant Kuar at the University fo Surrey, Professor Prashant Kumar, Tom Ogren, Tom Ogren's OPALS plant scale

The wonders of FreeCycle

13/02/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Because I am aware that over the next year or so I am going to have to move myself from the 14 rooms that I have been occupying in Lawn Road for the last 40 years into something at least a bit smaller – and because I have been helping my good friend Prudence (of the amazing …

Category: Conventional Medicine, Environmental Issues, GardensTag: Exchanging goods, Finding good homes for treasured items, Flynne's barn, FreeCycle, Holiday destination for teenagers with cancer, Kate Cohen Upholsterer

Urban farming

04/04/2018 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Next time you see a sad, abandoned bit of street with dead KFC bags piling up around the overflowing rubbish bin – why not install a grow bag or one those massive bags that builders use – fill it with soil and..... grow.... As you can see, this is what they have done at …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Environmental Issues, Food/Health Policy, Gardens, Mental HealthTag: BeeUrban, Calthorpe Project, Camley Street Natural park, Capital Growth, Dagenham Farm, Food Talk at the Impact Hub King's Cross, Global Generation, Growing communities urban farm, Impact Hub King's Cross, John Scurr Community Centre, Patchwork Farm Hackney, Skip gardens, Urban Bees, Urban farming

Wensleydale – without the cheese!

29/06/2017 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

This is the view across Wensleydale – and yes, the sun is trying to shine, even though the rain clouds are hovering. From the tiny hamlet of Sedbusk, across the Stonehouse Hotel where we were staying for a couple of days, to the very pretty village of Hawes. And this is one of …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gardens, Gluten-free, TravelTag: Allergy awareness in Wensleydale, Allergy awareness in Yorkshire Dales National Park, Aysgarth Falls Wensleydale, Bolton Castle Wensleydale, Gluten and dairy free food at the Stonehouse hotel, Hawes, Pen-y-Ghent, Sedbusk, Sheep dog trials, sheep dog whistles, Stonehouse Hotel, Vegan food in Yorkshire Dales National Park, Wensleydale cheese varieties

Low allergen garden wins gold at Chelsea Flower Show

25/05/2017 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  6 Comments

What a coup!! You see those round little yellow tickets saying OPALS? They are there to tell you, on a scale of 1 – 10, how badly that flower and its pollen will affect you if you have hay fever or allergic asthma. And they are all over the gold-winning Birmingham City Council …

Category: Allergies, Environmental Issues, GardensTag: 'Safe sex in the garden', Allergy Fighting Garden, Birmingham City Council display at Chelsea Flower show, Chelsea Flower Show, Darren Share, Darren Share Head of Parks at Birmingham City Council, Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, gardening articles on FoodsMatter, Hay fever and allergic asthma affected by high pollen counts, Low Allergen Gardening, Lower pollen could to to protect against allergic disease, Nigel Clarke, Nigel Clarke at Green Legacy Guernsey, Nigel Clarke at Queux plant centre, OPALS (Ogren Plant Allergy Scale), OPALS rating for allergenicity, Peter White, Roladnb emmet display at Chelsea Flower show, Roland Emmet society, the dangers of all male plants, Tom Ogren, Tom Ogren's OPALS plant scale

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