'We need to set aside the rulebook,' says gardening author on how to grow vegetables in a changing climate

Person holding wooden box of harvested vegetables.

Climate resilience is the latest buzz-phrase in gardening, but what exactly does it mean? And how, as gardeners, can it help us to grow healthy vegetable gardens and choose right plants for the future?

Increasingly, extreme weather conditions - from wildfires and flooding to drought and high winds - mean that crops have been failing globally leading to food shortages and rising prices. Gardening author and magazine editor, Kim Stoddart, says climate resilience means working with nature and using organic methods to create a garden that can stand up to the worst that the extreme effects of climate change can throw at it.