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 Five: Plant Fairs and Fair Weather

Matt Collins reflects on the subtle and often overlooked scenes of a changing garden.  

2 days ago
How Gardens Grow Us

Gardener Poppy Okotcha on following her vocation from a London houseboat to a bramble-filled Devonshire plot.

14 days ago
Packaging with Purpose | TOAST x Kvatt

We have partnered with innovative start-up Kvatt on a reusable packaging pilot designed for longevity.

15 days ago
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.

2 months ago
Tales From the Garden | Part Two: Every Weather

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

3 months 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.

4 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.

8 months ago
Revealing Hidden Mysteries on the Dorset Coast

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

8 months ago
Audiovisual Explorations of Changing Ecosystems

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

9 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.

9 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.

11 months ago
The Uncertainty of Spring

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

1 year 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. 

2 years ago
Bodies of Water with Photographer Jim Marsden

Exploring the connection between women and water across the UK.

2 years ago
Harnessing the Power of Plants with Herbalist Anne McIntyre

Maya Thomas visits the ayurvedic practitioner in her Cotswolds garden. 

2 years ago
Growing Flowers Sustainably with Wolves Lane Flower Company

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

2 years 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