Slow Living Ideas for Autumn
Slow Living Ideas for Autumn -Get outside for daily nature walks -Go on a foraging walk with an expert who can help you pick mushrooms and berries to eat! -Decorate the home with natural items such as pumpkins, leaves made into garlands and create a seasonal wreath....
Complete Guide to Growing Roses for the Kitchen
Complete Guide to Growing Roses for the Kitchen I adore roses. Not only do they give us the most glorious summer displays but they also supply us with nutritious rose hips in autumn. Rose hips (once de-seeded) can be used to make syrups, jams and jellies that are rich...
38 Autumnal Gardening Jobs
Each season I like to make a big list of gardening jobs to do during the coming months. This keeps me on track and also gets me excited about certain jobs too! Of course I never get them all done and this year has been especially hard since we are expecting another...
I’m on BBC Radio 2-Talking Autumnal Gardening
3 Autumn Jobs to Do Now! As heard on the BBC Radio 2 Vanessa Feltz Show: Listen Now! https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/p06kjjnm
I’m on Radio 2! Three Easy to Grow Vegetables
This morning I was incredibly lucky to chat to the wonderful Vanessa Feltz all about easy to grow vegetables! I had to pick these three as they are favourites of mine and something we're always sowing here on the farm with great success. Listen here:
How to Make Lavender Sugar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GtmuvXAbM Note ; to make elderflower sugar simply follow the same instructions using about 500g caster sugar to 8 heads of elderflower.
Vegetables to Grow in July
Glorious summer is well and truly here! Hot days and long languid afternoons approach but there are still garden tasks that I will be tackling in our polytunnels and out in the main beds too. Vegetables to Grow in July Beetroot (for brownies, Rupert's favourite finger...
Planting Trees & Herbs-Slow Living Vlog
May's off to a glorious start with lots of tree planting here on the farm. While I've been trying my hand at growing some new herbs (I may be slightly obsessed with herbs!) The blog was also featured in this month's Baby London, which I was so so excited about! I'm...
Our Winter Polytunnel and Slow Lifestyle Vlog
Our Winter Polytunnel and Slow Lifestyle Vlog Hello lovelies! It's January on the farm now and things are looking pretty barren and naked outside. There's plenty of squelchy mud underfoot but we still have lots of veg growing in one of our farm polytunnels which is...
My Cottage Garden-Wins & Fails So Far
If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know I’m on a quest to create a cottage garden for our new home. It’s certainly been a challenge and while I do have some wins to share I’ve also had lots of fails-but I’ve been enjoying it all lots! I thought I should write...