World Oceans Day

What does your garden have to do with the ocean? More than you'd think. 🌊 Today is World Oceans Day -- and here's something worth sitting with: around 8 million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean every year. A lot of it? Food packaging. Every time you grow your own herbs, greens, or veg, that's food that didn't come wrapped in plastic. It didn't need a polystyrene tray or a cling-wrapped punnet. It went from your patch to your plate -- no packaging required. And when you grow without synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilisers, that's fewer pollutants washing into our waterways and eventually into the sea. Your winter garden might feel small. But the ripple effect is real. What are you growing plastic-free this winter? Tell us below. 👇

Your garden is an ocean conservation project. Here's how. 🐚 Every plastic punnet of herbs you don't buy is one less piece of packaging that could end up in a waterway. Every time you skip the cling-wrapped lettuce and pick from your own patch instead, that's less plastic in the system. It sounds like a stretch, but the link between home growing and ocean health is direct. Plastic pollution in our oceans starts on land -- in our shopping trolleys, our bins, our supply chains. This World Oceans Day (8 June), grow something. Even a pot of herbs on the bench. Because the less plastic your food needs, the less plastic ends up where it shouldn't. Tag a grower who's helping the ocean without even knowing it. 🌿 Link in bio for plastic-free growing tips.

8 million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean every year. A lot of it is food packaging. 😔 But here's the thing -- every time you grow food at home, you're quietly opting out of that cycle. No plastic punnet for your parsley. No sealed bag for your salad greens. No polystyrene tray for your herbs. Just soil, water, sunlight, and your hands. This World Oceans Day (8 June), we're thinking about the connection between what we grow and the health of our waterways. Chemical-free gardening means fewer pollutants in runoff. Less packaging means less plastic in landfill and in the sea. Your winter patch is part of the solution. Never doubt that. What's growing in your garden this winter? Share your plastic-free harvest below. 🌏