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‘Tis the season to be scything by Paul Kingsnorth

Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 30 April 2012 | No Comments
Categories: Courses, Enivronmentally friendly, General Gardening, guest blogs, Reference, Videos

It’s that time of year. The grass is beginning to grow, and faster than you would imagine it could. Suddenly, it’s getting to the stage where it needs cutting, lest it overwhelm your food crops or smother your flower seeds or simply ruin your well-tended croquet lawn.

When the hop fields come to town by Rob Hopkins

Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 13 March 2012 | 2 Comments
Categories: General Gardening, guest blogs, Herbs, Home Brew, Reference, Uncategorized

Huge thanks to our latest guest blogger, Rob Hopkins for allowing us to reproduce the following blog. Rob is the founder of the Transition network and author of five excellent books.   Sometimes the simplest ideas carry with them, when thought through, such a powerful taste of how the future could be that they are quite irresistible. One such [...]

Spring cleaning – self-sufficient(ish) style by Guest blogger Ellie Garwood

Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 06 March 2012 | 3 Comments
Categories: Budget living, Enivronmentally friendly, guest blogs

I hope you will all give a a warm welcome to environmental writer Ellie Garwood as she tells us about her selfsufficientish approach to spring cleaning. March is here – hurrah! We survived winter, and now as the days get longer, the sun starts getting higher in the sky, and temperatures break into double figures it really does [...]

How much do you save from growing your own? By Jono Stevens of Real men sow

Yazan: Dave | 29 February 2012 | 3 Comments
Categories: guest blogs, Reference, Vegetables

In this our second instalment of guest blogs, Jono Stevens founder and chief of the excellent one man blog Real Men Sow “a cheery allotment blog”, tells us just how much an allotment can save you in a year. Last year I decided to work out how much money I saved by growing my own [...]


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