Growing Things and Making Things

I'm not doing very well with regular blog posts this year, so here's a bit of a catch up on some things I've left hanging. Sola...

Four years ago, after taking a spinning class, I wrote , I very much enjoyed the class and think this is something I'd like to do more o...

A well-known folk remedy for nettle stings is application of the common dock leaf, scrunched up and either rubbed or dabbed on. However, ver...

I know that the serious mushroom hunters find 'shrooms all year round, and many are lucky enough to find the spring varieties - St Georg...

Trying to get away from navel-gazing and back to writing about growing things and making things, here's a post that turns a saccharine-s...

I recently learned that the larger, tougher leaves of ground elder can be good to eat if you cook them the right way, and that some people c...

This isn't a riddle, it's a question I've genuinely been grappling with recently. Let me back up a little. I've been sufferi...

Oh dear, I've left my blog unattended for almost a month with a rat marauding around the kitchen. Well, the rat is no more. We bought an...

We borrowed our neighbour's trail camera to catch photographic evidence of the little blighters who've been keeping us awake at nigh...

I recently started helping out at the gardening club of the local primary school. It's a lovely little rural school with a lovely garden...