For many years Trevena Cross has been upping its environmental credentials – for a long time drawing from its own non-mains water supply and improving its self sufficiency in other areas of resource management. The site has grown over the years, to the large 35 acres it is today and so the journey to self sufficiency has become ever more challenging but also all the more important, for Garden Centre and Nursery Owner Graham Jeffery and his family, who live at the top of the nursery.

The site has been absorbing its fair share of carbon dioxide for decades!.. as a base for growing many thousands of plants each year – more than 90% of those it sells in the garden centre. It also supports a wide array of birds and animals, and