Eco-garden could help fight disease

Alison Patel writes: A new eco-community garden has been created that could provide help in the fight against cancer, climate change and global food shortages.

The Community Garden project saw members of the Fairlie Garden Growers team putting kitchen waste into domestic wormeries, the largandmillportnews.com reported.

These worms then transformed the waste into enriched wormcast which produced 'exceptional' fertiliser that was used to grow fruit, vegetables, herbs and other plants.

Talking about the importance of trying to solve Scotland's eco-problems, the team said that "the first of the major challenges is climate change".

Fairlie's garden helps to combat climate change by carrying carbon back into the soil "where it should be" through their innovative waste to food process.

Winner of the Times Online reader's choice for most green environment, the Eden Project in Cornwall was the favourite partly because it uses food waste from the centre's restaurants as compost for the garden.

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