We’ve just signed  this change.org petition to protect the closure of UK allotment sites. It’s been organised by Save Farm Terrace campaigner Sara Jane Trebar and has 14,410 supporters at the time of writing. Worryingly, the petition states that ‘councils across the UK are currently selling off allotment land to developers’ and that ‘between 2007 and 2013 the government only turned down […]

This hardly even counts for a recipe – in fact, lacking in quantities and details as it is, I think many a more seasoned ‘food blogger’ wouldn’t even share it. But I only make it once a year, and every time forget to write down exact details. So here it is for now – to […]

  Love it when you stumble across a roadside produce stall like the one pictured. We bought a spaghetti squash (back of table in picture above) Inspired by this little stall we’ve started a Roadside Produce Stall board on Pinterest! Do you have a favourite Roadside Produce Stall?

  So it’s way too warm for crumble but there’s still plenty of rhubarb to use up! If you’ve got a load, either filling your freezer or out on your plot, this is an easy and delicious cordial, sweetly scented with rose petals, that works well with lemonade or sparkling water, drizzled onto Eton Mess-type […]

Plot G35a, that is. Our scruffy but well-loved little half-plot behind the football ground in Altrincham. We’re losing it not because we’ve been kicked off for non-cultivation (nope, never even had ‘a letter’ despite our slovenly weeding habits). We’re moving – or relocating more like. Part of a growing  stream of people pulled southwards as […]