Treasure Gardening: Why we need peat-free, circular compost to become the norm

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Trewin Restorick lifts the lid on his latest green social enterprise focused on supplying high quality, peat-free horticultural compost made from waste materials

Treasure Gardening is a new social enterprise seeking to celebrate the wonders of waste by making high quality horticulture products from waste and by-products. The initiative is part of a wider ambition...

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