Better for nature and wildlife
Organic gardens provide food and homes for bees,
birds, butterflies and a variety of other wildlife. This prevents the decline
of our wonderful fellow creatures and of the plants they so much depend on.
Pollinators enable plants to fruit, set seed and breed. This in turn provides
food and habitat for a range of other creatures.
So the health of our natural ecosystems is fundamentally
linked to the health of our bees and other pollinators. The drivers of
biodiversity loss are many, but numerous scientific studies have highlighted
the major role pesticides play.
Pesticides
have found their way into our food, our soils, our rivers and our wildlife.
Around half of pesticides used in the UK are fungicides
which, used repeatedly, kill the microbial life essential to the soil ecosystem
and affect all that depend on it.