Growing Things and Making Things

A discussion on a facebook foraging group the other day has prompted me to write about something that I've been thinking about for some ...

Today marks the fifth anniversary of us buying our house here. I was going to write a post about what I've learnt over the last five yea...

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...