An interesting piece from the BBC (on Inside Out) about the Kew Bridge Eco Village, a group of people trying to live a sustainable life in harmony with their local community on an unused lot. Unfortunately the developer now has planning permission to develop the lot, so the future of the Eco Village is uncertain. They have a Facebook group if you want to keep up with their progress.
Emma Cooper is a freelance writer, photographer and podcaster. An active organic gardener, Emma lives in Oxfordshire with husband Pete, three plastic compost bins, two wormeries and a pair of bokashi bins. There used to be chickens, too, but they have all moved on to pastures new.
Emma loves making compost and growing edible & useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. Her first book, 'The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A to Z', covers a wide range of topics from green gardening techniques to unusual edible plants and was published by Permanent Publications in 2009. Emma's second book, 'The Allotment Pocket Bible', was published by Crimson in June 2011.
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