The shortest day of the year and the longest night, winter solstice is regarded as the official start of the winter season. And what better way to celebrate than with a trip to the allotment and a short country walk. Cavalo Nero and leeks still flourishing, crab apples and raspberries still clinging and plenty of freshly laid eggs. Happy Solstice!
If you’re starting to think about doing a bit of spring cleaning you might want to try this super easy homemade citrus vinegar all round cleaner. Apparently the acidity levels of white vinegar kills most mould, bacteria and germs and used undiluted white vinegar left in a bowl in summer time gets rid of fruit flies! […]
Read the full post …Since summer our hens seem to have upped their laying capacity and have been supplying us with up to 30 eggs a week. That’s a lot of eggs for one family to get through! So as well as giving batches away and baking when possible we’ve taken to regular ice cream making. To my […]
Read the full post …Thanks to John Harrison of www.allotment-garden.org tweeting a reminder to look out for cut-price cream for butter making in the supermarkets post-Christmas, I picked up a couple of 600ml cartons of extra-thick double cream in our local Tesco for the bargain price of 23p each. The thinking was much more ‘rainy day activity’ than ‘bargain butter’ […]
Read the full post …With the Christmas countdown gathering pace, there’s still time to throw together some homemade edible treats to distribute to friends and family. Massively popular with my kids, and their friends, is fruit leather. Rolls of pliable, tangy dried fruit, sour and moreish, are a kind of healthy alternative to Haribo sweets. And they’re incredibly easy […]
Read the full post …If you type in rosemary on a Google search there’s a wealth of information on health benefits and rich folk lore attached to its name. A symbol of remembrance and fidelity, it’s mentioned by Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ – “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance”. At funerals in Elizabethan times rosemary was strewn on […]
Read the full post …So, my new appointment to view television is Tudor Monastery Farm on Wednesday nights, BBC2. We visited the beautiful Weald and Downland Museum in Sussex this summer and were blown away. The vast, unspoiled acreage of down and woodland is populated with scattered original and reclaimed structures from the early medieval through to Victorian periods: […]
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