Tips, activities and resources

What should you do with the leftovers once you carved your pumpkin? How about making spiced pumpkin soup?

We’ve come up with six tips to help you stay active, be social and enjoy the wonders of nature this season.

This popular ice cream flavour is the second most expensive spice after saffron.

Like tomatoes, potatoes and tobacco, chillies are members of the nightshade family and come in many shapes.

The Ginkgo biloba is one of the world's oldest living tree species and was around 350 million years ago.

Yew is extraordinarily long-lived and slow-growing, with some trees estimated to be over 3,000 years old.

Hops are used in beer-making for the bitter taste, flavour stability and retention of the foamy head on top.

These trees turn a dramatic crimson each autumn, and their red tinged timber is used for veneer and furniture.

There are about 3,000 different types of tea. The flavour depends on where they grow and the type of bush.

This fragrant, multipurpose herb has been used for all sorts of things from perfume to lice repellent!