{"id":1658,"date":"2005-10-02T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/10\/02\/prince-charles-organic-gardener\/"},"modified":"2005-10-02T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T14:32:00","slug":"prince-charles-organic-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/prince-charles-organic-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Charles, Organic Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"
Love him or hate him, one has to acknowledge that Great Britain’s Prince Charles is a Renaissance man. Scotsman.com has published an article<\/a> on yet another of Charles’ passions: organic gardening.<\/p>\n The Prince of Wales is turning gardens on his Deeside estate into an organic paradise.<\/p>\n The green-fingered prince, who already applies organic principles in his gardens at Highgrove, Gloucestershire, has converted to similar methods at Birkhall at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n The process takes around two years, after which gardeners can apply to the Soil Association for certification if they comply with specific standards.<\/p>\n Only then can a garden say it has official organic status.<\/p>\n A spokeswoman for Clarence House said: “The Prince is a firm believer in sustainable farming and gardening and Birkhall is currently going through the conversion process to be organic. It does take a few years to convert.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While I doubt that Charles will be the one digging in the dirt at Birkhall, this should help immensely with spreading the word on organic gardening.<\/p>\n Categories: Prince Charles<\/a>, organic<\/a>, gardening<\/a>, Scotland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Love him or hate him, one has to acknowledge that Great Britain’s Prince Charles is a Renaissance man. Scotsman.com has published an article on yet another of Charles’ passions: organic [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n