TOAST Magazine

Environment

Exploring the land around us and the ocean beyond. Finding new, thoughtful ways to preserve our environment and connecting with the outdoors.
Tales From the Garden | Part Three: Breaking Buds

Matt Collins, writer and head gardener at the Garden Museum reflects on the subtle and often overlooked scenes of a changing garden.

12 days ago
Tales From the Garden | Part Two: Every Weather

Monthly musings from Matt Collins’ diary of a changing garden.  

1 month ago
Tales From the Garden | Part One: The Turn of the Year

Join Matt Collins as he documents the subtle and often overlooked scenes of a changing garden.

2 months ago
Forging New Pathways With Nadeem Perera

The wildlife presenter, activist and co-founder of birding group Flock Together takes us on a journey through Bristol’s green spaces.

6 months ago
Revealing Hidden Mysteries on the Dorset Coast

The earth scientist and presenter Anjana Khatwa takes us on a journey along Charmouth beach.

6 months ago
Audiovisual Explorations of Changing Ecosystems

Filmmaker Michelle Sanders and musician and sound designer Alice Boyd on communicating the environmental crisis through creativity.

7 months ago
Journeying the Ridgeway With Stone Club

Lally Macbeth and Matthew Shaw take us on a guided walk steeped in folklore, ecology and history.

7 months ago
Encouraging Curiosity at the Horniman Gardens

Head of Horticulture Errol Reuben Fernandes on his role in connecting people to nature and the environment.

9 months ago
The Uncertainty of Spring

Matt Collins observes the minutiae of seasonal change from a remote cabin in Sussex.

11 months ago
The Secret Life of Yorkshire Rhubarb

Jess Wheeler, Joya Berrow and Lottie Hampson visit one of Yorkshire’s last forced rhubarb farms.

1 year ago
The Healing Nature of Community Gardens

Horticulturalists Tayshan Hayden-Smith and Danny Clarke on closing the green gap and planting to bring people together.

1 year ago
The Important Cause Behind Our Circle Initiatives

A closer look at the impactful work of our partner charities, TRAID and READ.

1 year ago
The Theatre of the American Landscape

Matt Collins on his affection for the magnitude and raw nature of the country’s wild places.

1 year ago
Progressing Our Circular Initiatives with TRAID

We have partnered with the UK charity to further reduce the impact of our clothes. 

1 year ago
Bodies of Water with Photographer Jim Marsden

Exploring the connection between women and water across the UK.

1 year ago
Harnessing the Power of Plants with Herbalist Anne McIntyre

Maya Thomas visits the ayurvedic practitioner in her Cotswolds garden. 

1 year ago
Growing Flowers Sustainably with Wolves Lane Flower Company

Alice Vincent meets the duo taking a conscious approach at their nursery in north London. 

1 year ago
A Meditation on Women Drawn to the Soil

Alice Vincent reflects on the potency of outdoor space, at the heart of her new book, Why Women Grow.

2 years ago
Notes from a Winter Shoreline

Matt Collins on the appeal of migratory birds along the south coast.

2 years ago
Whinyard Rocks | Producing Natural Wine in Wales

The winemakers cultivating a low-intervention vineyard on a former sheep farm.

2 years ago
Charleston Gardener | Harry Hoblyn in conversation with Matt Collins

The gardeners discuss continuing the artistic spirit of a place through horticulture.

2 years ago
Encouraging Nature through Farming with Author James Rebanks

We speak to the writer and shepherd about his second book English Pastoral and his considered approach to agriculture.

3 years ago
Modern Life from Wilder Land | A Manifesto by Sebastian Cox

A vision for nature-first land from the London-based craftsman and environmentalist.

3 years ago
Brooklyn Grange | A Rooftop Farm in New York

Bringing people together through growing in unused spaces.

3 years ago