Facilities
The charity's headquarters are based at its Garden Organic Ryton site in Warwickshire. Here the organisation not only leads its charitable delivery activities, but also runs over 30 individual gardens in 10 acres (40,000 m2) of beautifully landscaped grounds open to the public.
As well as boasting the world’s first public biodynamic garden, the site is also home to the Vegetable Kingdom, extensive conference facilities, an award-winning organic shop and cafe and the charity’s renowned Heritage Seed Library, which conserves over 800 endangered varieties of rare vegetable seeds under threat from extinction.
As well as Garden Organic Ryton, the charity has run the walled kitchen gardens at Audley End, Essex in association with English Heritage.
Audley End is a Jacobean stately home owned by English Heritage and in 1999 Garden Organic painstakingly restored its walled kitchen garden from an overgrown, semiderelict state using organic methods.
A demonstration garden in Yalding, Kent, showing organic growing techniques in fourteen individual gardens was closed in 2007 after 12 years' development because of financial unviability, but reopened in 2008 under the ownership of Maro Foods.
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