Farmers are turning ‘worthless’ woollen fleeces into compost because prices plunged by more than 60% a kilo after export markets closed amid Covid pandemic The value of sheep wool has plummeted in recent years from 87p a kilo to 33p Shepherd Stuart Fletcher, 40, from Stonegate, East Sussex, forced to compost Half of British … Read more
Monty Don slams garden centres for ‘actively choosing to do harm’ by selling compost made from peat Peat has adverse effects on climate and is most damaging fuel of global warming Intensive peat mining is also a known threat to rare and endangered species Gardeners urged to stop ‘sticking their head in the sand’ and … Read more
The managing director of a plant wholesaler said his firm has lost more than £2.5million-worth of business in the last three months after garden centres were forced to close as part of the coronavirus lockdown. Adrian Marskell, who runs The Bransford Webbs Plant Company in Worcester, in the West Midlands, has had to begin throwing away … Read more
Sales in products used to grow and make food have soared as shoppers increasingly find themselves in empty supermarket aisles amid coronavirus panic-buying. Seeds in particular are flying off Amazon’s warehouse shelves, according to the online seller’s figures which reveal as much as a 1,237 per cent spike in the past 24 hours. Anecdotal evidence … Read more