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Hello and Welcome Tinks, For one moment I thought you were living with 29 eco warriors - it must be getting late. I look forward to reading your posts. Sue

Yeah, running it as a business in the first instance makes a perverted sense because this is what the people who give our the financial support understand. If you are amazingly profitable and successful you can use your profit to benefit your community in whatever way you wish. Sue aka wooly!

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Yeah, we watched it. Great stuff as ever from Attenborough. Sue

I am also a nature nut and love encouraging birds and other wildlife into the garden. I missed that programme but will watch out for it this week. Thanks for posting it. Sue

Hi there. Welcome to the Forum; looking forward to reading your news from Tipperary. Sue

If anyone else was inspired to start growing herbs for dyeing, I found the following through googling which specifically advertise dyer's herbs. Iden Croft Herbs, Staplehurst. www.herbs-uk.com Nicky's Nursery, Broadstairs. www.nickys-nursery.co.uk Plantation Cottage Herbs, Pershore www.plantation-co...

Glad it was of use - Sue

My daughter spent some years as a dancer and they use olive oil with a handful of sea salt to exfoliate and moisturise all in 2 minutes. Rub it on really hard and the salt exfoliates and then dissolves so that it can be showered off leaving a layer of oil. It really is effective and the dancers did ...

Wasn't that a great programme and one of the best reasons yet for putting your whole allotments over to the cultivation of gooseberries!

Am definitely going to do dye plants as well, Shirlz. Am going googling for suppliers now!

Sue

Wasn't that a great programme. Am also definitely going to do dye plants, Shirlz - am going googling for suppliers now! Sue

I have used FarmaroundUK (you can google it - perhaps the name isn't quite right) - they are a London based company but I get stuff from their satellite farm in Richmond which is nearer to me. They do have a provision to ask for stuff to be left elsewhere if you are out,; however I have several time...

This may be of interest to some: From Northern Echo, Friday March 3, 2006: A rural home delivery service has been given a boost by the Government, with a £26,000 grant. Crofter's Foods, based at Seamer, near Stokesley, N Yorkshire, was launched less than a year ago to take local produce to people...

Lettuce and radishes have sprouted up in 4 days on the window sill despite kitchen being very cold. Am still waiting on other things planted last Saturday.

Thanks Stew, will look that up. Sue