Stephen Cox Garden Trust

13/04/2026

New Video GARDEN GYM
(from Stephen Cox Garden Trust)

Your garden is probably the best gymnasium you have and it's good for your well-being and peace of mind. And all the major muscle groups are worked. Gardening can help keep you supple and fit whilst also enaged in a creative rewarding which helps Nature.

Digging, lifting bags of mulch, bending and kneeling to w**d, pushing wheelbarrows, sawing, pruning, putting in posts/fences etc provide strength training for healthier bones and joints. And of course improve heart and lungs, additional to improving brain function and flow of healing endorphins and serrotonin. Actual gym body training can be added.

But build in self care like: hydration, short breaks, uv protection, warm up, good shoes.

So connect with nature, enjoy your garden and enjoy your Gym

Editor: Daphne Ng (Bristol University)
Writer/Narrator: Stephen Ben Cox
Music:uppbeat.io/t/corals/skylight
YouTube link: https://m.youtube.com//shorts

This video is an excerpt from the book: ‘The Healthy Gardener’ by Stephen Ben Cox being published in Germany by SK Marketing

30/01/2026

YOU AND NON-HUMAN RIGHTS
new video from Stephen Cox Garden Trust

One of the designating markers as to higher intelligence and self evolution in this lifetime is the extent to which we are kind and empathic to other creatures with which we share this planet.

As potentially "gods in the making" we have the opportunity and indeed the duty to be a steward and carer for all life on this planet. If we truly are the evolved species we claim to be then it follows that we must protect, cherish and have respect for the environment and other creatures.

So far what we have done is to destroy habitat, polluted the planet, caused the extinction of seeral hundred species, created the conditions of the Sixth Great Mass Extinction Event, and initiated climate change, and caused destruction and degradation. This is not the behaviour of an advanced and higher species!

This video sets out the basic parameters of what is needed for our own enhancement with regards to non-human rights. How we can make simple changes to our behaviou to enhance life on Earth for other creatures,

Here are eleven essential guidelines for non-human rights we need to embrace (for our own benefit as well asd theirs). It is simple and effective to follow. All that it is required is an improvement in our own intelligence and outlook and determination to make this world a better place.

It begins with our own lives and gardens and local community- and who we vote for: deny your vote to any political party which does not have as a centerpoint of their manifesto sound environmental principles.

Editor: Adam Mirreh (Bristol University)

Text/Narration: Stephen Ben Cox

Music: Adobe Stock Cloud: 3 Minute Tunes

Trust Website: stephencoxgarden.webador.co.uk
Email: stephencox.gardentrust.gmail.com
YouTube Channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCkYY9eJhV8SLIY8iVwnKG1Q

(The text of this video is an excerpt from the book: The Happy Gardener by Stephen Ben Cox being published in Germany by SKMaketing)

(This video refers mainly to wild animals and creatures being forcibly taken from the wild as opposed to symbiotic working relationships with domesticated animals)

Website of The Stephen Cox Garden Trust (registered charity #1174239) in England for the advancement of education in horticulture & conservation. Offering a large portfolio of studies, research, placements, community projects. Based on the Founder's unusual garden, Writings and philosophy.

17/01/2026

video:
YOU and ANIMAL FRIENDS
Stephen Cox Garden Trust

For too long we humans have been in exile from Nature and the fellow inhabitants of our planet: this has caused the planet to be in catastrophic stress, initiated the 6th Great Mass Extinction Event -and also made humanity imbalianced, bereft of effective well being and complete functionality.

Your higher self and evolution in this lifetime can be indicated by your empathy and kindly relationship with other creatures with which we share the Planet. Additional to developing effective and caring relationsips with animals it can bring immense benefits in terms of well-being, focus, harmony, knowledge and comprehending the environment.

Making Habitats:

●Bird houses. ●Bug hotels. ●Bat boxes. ●Hedgehog houses. ●Pond. ●Wetland. ●A wild area which is only trimmed/cut down once a year. ●Bird feeders. ●Bird baths. ●Bee recovery stations. ●Pollinating plants. ●Piles of leaves. ●Piles of stones. ●Log piles. ●Small wild-flower or meadow area.

Modifying our behaviour:

●How they live, what they do, what they need. ●Making a place for them. ●Attracting wildlife to your garden. ●Taking delight in setting aside just a few moments every day to observe the comings and goings of other creatures. ●Going quietly in the garden. ●Not disturbing creatures when they are eating or drinking.

You will be surprised how much your life improves as a result of such a gentle programme of caring stewardship.

YOU TUBE: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QxBdkLMD010

Editor: Daphne NG (Bristol University)
Narrator/Writer: Stephen Ben Cox
Music: Upbeat: Light Pattern Grassland
Web: stephencoxgarden.webador.co.uk

(This video is an excerpt from the book: 'The Happy Gardener' by Stephen Ben Cox' which is being published in Germany by SK Marketing.)

For too long we humans have been in exile from Nature and the fellow inhabitants of our planet: this has caused the planet to be in catastrophic stress, init...

17/11/2025

YOU AND THE HEALTHY GARDENER
(new video from Stephen Cox Garden Trust)

We are all looking for health and happiness, but it’s not easy. But help might be nearby: look to your garden or the great outdoors!

Happiness and health aspects of gardening are many fold and incredibly rewarding and enjoyable.

•Lower your blood pressure.

•Maintain healthy limbs and joints.

•Contribute to muscle mass retention.

•Retain suppleness and flexibility.

•Give you a sense of purpose.

•Provide an interest in things around you

•Reduce anxiety and stress

•Provides a sense of oneness and connection to Nature.

•Having flowing water releases negatively charged ions which increases serotonin.

•Enhances mental awareness and flexibility , and retention of information and response.

•Improves mental well-being and brain function.

•A daily cold shower in the garden considerably boosts the immune system.

Growing fruit & vegetables further improves health and provides sense of achievement. And by sitting under trees we breathe in terpenes which fight cancer and bring harmony.

Editor: Adam Mirreh (University of the West of England)

Written & Narrated: Stephen Ben Cox

Music: Adobe Stock/Creative Cloud- Piano Dreamer

YT Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ecxWyUiE9tY

(This video text is an excerpt from the book 'The Healthy Gardener' by Stephen Ben Cox to be published in Germany by SK Marketing).

We are all looking for health and happiness, but it’s not easy. But help might be nearby: look to your garden or the great outdoors!Happiness and health aspe...

29/10/2025

My latest Video is published:
'YOU & WILDFLOWERS'

(va Stephen Cox Garden Trust)

"We have taken wildflowers for granted and now we are suffering. Amidst climate change and the 6th.Great Mass Extinction Event (which has been caused entirely by our species Homo Sapiens) one of the greatest catastrophes now being seen, the especially in the U.K. is the and dangerous loss of over 97% of wildflower meadows in only 100 years.

This has produced a dramatic decline in the populations of bees, butterflies, and other invertebrates to the point that many species are now on the brink of extinction.

We need to wake up for because if this situation continues our food supplies (and thus our very survival) will be under threat. As well as the total collapse of the ecological balance of the planet.

Your garden can help arrest this problem if you set aside an area for wild flowers and long grasses. Cutting such an area only once a year will increase the populations of invertebrates by over 73%!

However, despite what seems like a tsunami of doom, you can help make a positive change! There are many other things you can do in your garden to help this and also have fun, improve your life quality, health and well-being.

This video will introduce you to a range of simple things you can do in your garden to make it a wildlife friendly place by organising small habitats, attracting wildlife, providing pollinating plants, wild spaces and also animal homes,

Look at my other videos for ideas on other aspects home and garden and harmony with Nature. Your own mind and body will also be rewarded!"

Video Editor: Emilie Benedikt (University of the West of England)

Text & Narration: Stephen Ben Cox

Music: Swirling Snowflake by Maarten Schellekens

YouTube link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zPIgG5HASSo

Website: stephencoxgarden.webador.co.uk
Email: [email protected]

We have taken wildflowers for granted and now we are suffering. Amidst climate change and the 6th.Great Mass Extinction Event (which has been caused entirel...

21/10/2025

YOU AND ANIMAL HOMES
(a new video from Stephen Cox Garden Trust)

Amidst the immensity of the Sixth Great Mass Extinction Event, global destruction of habitat and loss of wildlife it may feel like there is a tsunami of problems against which we are helpless. BUT there is much we can all do in our little ways which together can reverse and overcome these problems.

And one of them is undertaking a programme of wildlife and habitat stewardship and love in one's own garden. Domestic gardens cover more space than all the National Parks in the UK together.

This video will give you a guide as to some of the many little steps you can take to make a difference, and enhance and enrich your own life simultaneously! Some of the tips include:
•Bat boxes, bee boxes, bug hotels.
•a small wetland area.
•a pile of small stones, a
•small jumble of old wood,
•bird feeders. •bird baths.
•a small pond.
•planting nectar rich perennial flowers and shrubs.
•a small area of long grasses cut once a year.
•an area which is left for wild meadow flowers.

Many animals need our help given the dramatic habitat loss all around us and your garden can become a haven to help restore species numbers.

Text & narration: Stephen Ben Cox

Editing: Naomi (Hsiang-Chin) Cheng, University of Bath

Music: Sleeping Sheep by The Green Orbs (YouTube Free Music Library)

Email: [email protected]

Video link:

Registered UK Charity (1174239) advancing education in horticulture & conservation offers: (1) foreign students residential places; (2) conservation guides; (3) unemployed training; (4) help for adults with learning difficulties; (5) library; (6) workshops/courses; (7) videos; (8) research; (9) ment...

04/10/2025

PRIVATE STUDY CLUB, Chippenham
A private study club is being organized for students and others on a Saturday morning available from 08.00 to midday, which will be held at Wetherspoons, Chippenham where a room is privately booked out for the purpose.

It will provide a friendly but quiet space for private study, research or reading etc without distructions or noise, yet offer a sense of company and possibly make new friends.
Coffee/hot chocolate etc is £1.71 for unlimited refills.
Reasonably priced meals and breakfasts.

To be sure of getting your own table please registe/contact: [email protected]

27/09/2025

New Video from Stephen Cox Garden Trust:
YOU AND THE WILD SIDE

You and the Wild Side is part of a series of short videos from Stephen Cox Garden Trust (registered charity 1174239) comprising excerpts from a series of books.

This one deals with the potential of bringing the Wild Side into your garden whch can help aiding the recovery of the planet as well as enrichment of your life.

Across the world (and also in the UK) natural habitats have been depleted, destroyed and degraded. This is especially so with regards to Wildflower Meadows which have decreased by the best part of 100% in recent years leading to a dramatic decline of all species of bees butterflies and invertebrates. It is an ecological crisis.

This short video will help you understand the problem better and suggest ways in which you can help.

Video can be found here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oDMKekNU2gk

Text & Narration: Stephen Ben Cox
Editing: Adam Mirreh (University West of England)
Music: (Adobe stock crearive cloud) Stuart Hunger
Website: stephencoxgarden.webador.co.uk
Email: [email protected]

You and the Wild Side is part of a series of short videos from Stephen Cox Garden Trust (registered charity 1174239) comprising excerpts from a series of boo...

13/08/2025

GREENING THE CITY: a new video by
Stephen Cox Garden Trust
(reg.charity 1174239)

GREENING THE CITY
Saving the city. Saving Nature. Enhanced living.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZiplvl2D8

This video examines the origins and development of the city and the danger it has now reached with ever expanding encroachment on nature. The city was never planned it happened, anarchically growing from the initial compounds of early Neolithic clans.

The city is now noisy, toxic, polluting, destructive, crowded. In its present form it is unable to be sustained or to expand without evermore destruction of Nature and wildlife, increased climate change, and greater crises resulting-- including for city dwellers.

Here it is suggested that all problems can be overcome by the city expanding upwards. It proposes a total greening of the city whereby it becomes its own source of food, dramatic expansion of wildlife, improved health and lifestyle, and actually becomes a garden itself.

Various issues are tackled including such thngs as:
• Water- streams, fountains, lagoons, ponds.
• Totally submerged transport.
• Roads transformed to public open spaces and woodlands.
• Phasing out motor cars with extensive public transport and hoverpods.
• Food production.
• Vegetation covered buildings.
• Extensive solar panels green roofs.
• Bringing Nature and wildlife to the city.
• Sustainable city created energy.

The city can become green and self sustaining, enhancing human well being and community and planetary healing.

Editor: Adam Mirreh (University of the West of England)
Author/Narrator: Stephen Ben Cox
Music by: Adobe Stock Creative Cloud
Musician: Miguel Angel Albentosa Bó

Stephen Cox Garden Trust: https://stephencoxgard... [email protected]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZiplvl2D8

GREENING THE CITYSaving the city. Saving Nature. Enhanced living. This video examines the origins and development of the city and the danger it has now reach...