About The Business
I am a fully insured gardener offering environmentally friendly
solution to your gardening needs. I use a bike I built
myself and a trailer rather than a van, and I
use hand tools rather than noisy, polluting petrol machinery.
I even have a lawnmower in my trailer, it's a wonder of
modern technology in my opinion, you can find out all about
it here. I
work with wildlife and the environment in mind using only
organic products and sourcing materials as locally as possible.
All my stationary is printed on recycled paper.
The most sustainable way to deal
with your garden (and kitchen) waste is to
compost it in
your own garden and I can source and/or build you a compost
bin if you don't have one. If there's more waste than can
be dealt with in your own garden I can arrange for our local
recycling heroes at
Magpie to
come and collect it for composting at the
Brighton
Community Compost Project at Stanmer Park.
About Me
I always wanted to be a computer guy, ever since I was a kid,
right up until six months after becoming one. I paid attention
at school, got a computer science degree and got a programming
job. I then quickly realised it wasn't for me. I stuck
it out for a while, moved to Brighton and another job and
stuck it out some more.
I'd always loved gardening; from helping my granny in the garden
as a kid to mowing lawns as part of my first job,
aged 13. So, I took on an allotment to relieve the tedium
of computers and very quickly felt at home with all things
green and growing. Some years later and after formalising
and expanding my knowledge on a horticulture course with
Brighton City College at Stanmer Park I decided to make
a living out of my love of gardening. And here I am...
I've always been an environmentalist too I guess. I can distinctly
remember being outraged when taught about the plight of
the whales when I was 10. I did a two month conservation
expedition with Trekforce in
Indonesia in 1997 and have been involved in various environmental
and social justice campaigns over the years.
I am a member of Bhogg
(Brighton and Hove Organic Gardeners Group) and The
RHS (Royal Horticulture Society) which between them
keep me up to date with what's happening in the world of
horticulture locally and nationally. I still maintain my
allotment of course, gardening isn't just a job for me,
it's my hobby too!
Acknowledgements
I'd like to thank my friends Pete and Rob for coming up with the
idea of the cycling gardening and for encouraging me to
steal their idea and make it a reality.
I'd also like to thank Josh, The
Cycling Gardener, in Norwich who had come up with the idea
even before Pete and Rob and who also helped and encouraged
me along the way.
