Press

BBC National News – With Hilary Benn, Sec of State for DEFRA, announcing investment in bee research, April 2009
Robert Elms show on BBC Radio London – Science Week interview with David Perkins.
BBC Radio 4 – With Prof. Ted Benton (author of New Naturalist “Bumblebees”)
The BBC’s Springwatch season – The first CBeebies Springwatch was based at Roots and Shoots with Jackson the pink dinosaur… A feature filmed with Kate Humble for the main Springwatch programme.
LBC Radio news – Apple Day news
The Richard and Judy Show – a feature on beekeeping and bee disease, with a second feature using video-microscope equipment.

• THE GUARDIAN
REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Our gardens may be blooming now, but where will the next generation of green fingers come from asks Lindsay Swan

• TIME OUT
GRASS ROOTS
David Perkins, education and resources manager for Roots & Shoots community garden in Lambeth, is in Paradise Corner when I arrive, busy digging a hole reports David Jenkins

• THE TIMES
HERE’S THE BUZZ
A meadow full of bees in the heart of London? Anne Gatti can’t believe her eyes — or ears

• SUNDAY TIMES
NURSERY LESSONS
A wildlife garden in south London is nurturing the trainee horticulturalists as much as the plants, says Caroline Donald

• HORTICULTURE WEEK
ECO BUILDING GETS ROYAL SEAL OF APPROVAL

• THIRD SECTOR
FROM YOUNG SHOOTS…
Lambeth is one of the most socially deprived boroughs of the UK, but an unlikely horticulture project is sowing seeds of sufficiency for teenagers, writes Nathalie Thomas

• BD
ARCHITECT PAUL NOTLEY DIGS IN AT ROOTS AND SHOOTS
Paul Notley’s sustainable design for Roots and Shoots, a south London horticulture charity, expresses handsome architectural values reports Tony Fretton