How to build a bird box
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
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Food for you
Learn all about growing your own food in harmony with nature
Get involved
Find out how you can get involved with Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature
Training and Resources
Training, courses and online resources from all the partners of Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature.
Celebrate the autumn harvest
Celebrating the gifts of nature this autumn, from the vegetable patch harvest to delicious recipes and apple trees.
Welcome to Coronation Gardens!
Kate Bradbury, garden writer and author, shares her enthusiasm for the new initiative helping people to grow food alongside nature.
Create homes for wildlife
Invite more wildlife into your garden by providing natural homes like long grass and log piles.
Coronation Gardens
Welcome to Coronation Gardens for food and nature! If you’d like to grow your own carrots or strawberries to save money on your weekly food shop and relax in nature among the butterflies and birds in your back yard, we’d love you to get involved.
About Us
Find out more about Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature, and the partners involved: The Wildlife Trusts, The Women's Institute, Incredible Edible and Garden Organic.
Rivers
From otters to freshwater shrimps, all animals are dependant on an abundant and reliable supply of clean water. Rivers sustain the natural environment, wildlife and people in equal measure.
Grow your own food – and save money!
Gardening organically allows you to grow fresh, cheap and abundant food close to home, while at the same time nurturing nature, writes Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic. Here’s eight things to…
Calaminarian grassland
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…