Welcome to earth-friendly gardener, a resource for experienced and beginner gardeners everywhere – and for anyone curious to explore more about how what we do in our gardens affects the natural world around us.

earth-friendly gardener is cultivated by me, John Walker, a British gardening and environment writer, book author and blogger. You can find out more about me, my gardening philosophy and the gentle ambition for this site on the About page.

At the heart of earth-friendly gardener is a growing and free-to-read collection of my published magazine articles, columns and blogposts, covering a diversity of topics: from tackling climate change to exposing gardening industry ‘greenwash’, growing blight-resistant potatoes to buying less gardening ‘stuff’. I hope you enjoy reading my work, that it challenges your grey matter and, hopefully, gets you thinking differently about what you’re doing in your own garden or allotment, whatever its size.

To ensure its independence, earth-friendly gardener doesn’t carry any advertising or sponsorship.

There’s also information on the books I’ve written, including my latest, the culmination of several year’s work, published by Aquamarine: How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Greener, Planet-Friendly Gardening.

I make my living from writing, so if you’re a magazine or website editor, book publisher, media producer, or an organisation looking for some fresh, thought-cultivating content, and you’re interested in exploring ideas that chime with mine, get in touch via Writer for Hire.

If you’d like me to speak to your gardening club, society or other organisation about the themes that run through my writing – or take part in a debate around trickier gardening topics, such as ending peat use – please go to the Speaking page.

If you enjoy and value your visits here, a donation helps me to meet the costs of feeding and watering the site and helps fund future, more searching articles (which you’re unlikely to read in mainstream gardening magazines).

“John Walker shoots from the hip… he managed to make a major environmental issue of the day – the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – directly relevant to his gardening readership and to make it clear that individual actions can make a difference”

Judges’ citation, Garden Media Guild Environmental Award 2010 for Kicking the Habit, which connected garden resource use with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.