Spring has sprung, and it's the perfect time to get outside and try growing your own fruit and veg.

Homegrown food cuts down on carbon emissions by reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery, transport and packaging. Even better, food that's fresh from the garden is almost always tastier and more nutritous. A few hundred miles in the back of a lorry doesn't do fresh produce any favours.

If you're new to home-growing you probably won't feed the five thousand in your first year, but nothing beats the taste of your first freshly-picked strawberry.

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Lots of this month’s tips are adapted from The Rough Guide to Green Living, by 10:10’s resident carbon expert Duncan Clark.


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