Tag: Health

How Prescribing Nature Transforms Mental Health
A recent two-year initiative in the UK explored how prescribing nature-based activities, also called Green Social Prescribing, could improve mental health outcomes. The activities included gardening, green exercise, bushcraft, wild swimming, conversation project, outdoor creative activities and many more. Their 2024 report found that, across all types of…

The Magic Complexity of Soil and Soil Health
We have often mistake soil for dirt. But the most contemporary science is revealing soil to be perhaps the most fascinating and complex of all ecosystems, as diverse and abundant as a tropical rainforest or a coral reef. Nowhere in nature are species so densely packed as under…

The soil food web: why healthy soil means healthy people
In alignment with World Soil Day, Earthed and Farmacy have come together to highlight the pivotal role soil plays in building healthy ecosystems, healthy food, and healthy people. Adapted from the Farmacy Manifesto on the Future of Food.

Five ways to embrace Organic Living with Neal’s Yard Remedies
Organic products not only nurture skin, body and mind, but also preserve the biodiversity of our planet. Here are five simple steps from Neal’s Yard Remedies to help make choosing organic easy for a safer, healthier and fairer world.

What does Organic mean?
Restored ecosystems, regenerative agriculture, and thriving biodiversity are all closely connected to organic growing - but what does organic really mean?