Growing Things and Making Things

I went out yesterday morning in the hope of finding some St George's mushrooms, it being the right time of year for them, but didn't...

Last year, I was very excited to discover wild garlic growing by the stream that runs along the edge of my garden. Wild garlic (Allium ursi...

Although we talk of Seed potatoes they are not, technically speaking, seeds. They are tubers. However, potato plants do also flower and pro...

A friend recommended this plant to me last spring, and in May I found a plant in my garden that looked very much like the picture in my book...

I recently joined, then rather shortly afterwards took over leading, a pub philosophy group. We don't meet in a pub - indeed the venue i...

Um, yes, I am a bit late with this (though I did eat the nettles on Friday), and I don't even have anything very exciting to tell you a...

I didn't really want to get a job when we moved here, and I haven't found myself missing anything about the world of work, but when ...

I've been making beer from kits for a while now and the results are fine, but I don't see it as particularly self sufficient, it...

I'm cheating a bit today, because I'm not sure I've actually eaten sorrel this week, but I have been harvesting it for a while. ...

I was brought up to believe that we shouldn't attach too much importance to things . What really matters in life is other people, and we...