Yazan: Dave | 17 June 2013 | 5 Comments
Categories: Lifestyle and Recipes, Uncategorized, Wild foods
I love Middle Eastern food in all shapes and forms. Nothing satisfies me more than tucking into a mezze platter of falafels, domla (or dolmades), homous, olives and pita bread served up on a bed of salad leaves with perhaps a salsa dipping sauce on the side. However, nearly all the ingredients have to [...]
Yazan: admin | 08 May 2013 | No Comments
Categories: General Gardening, Uncategorized
Here’s another very old article I’ve decided to resurrect, some of the links go to the old website and may look a little dated now! The garden in May can be a busy time for the organic grower. A word of warning do think before you plant out those tender vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers; [...]
Yazan: Dave | 30 April 2013 | 2 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized
Growing in a small space means you not only have to decide carefully what you want to grow, you also need to make the most of it come harvest time. There are very simple choices you can make such as growing cut and come again lettuces rather than ones which are cropped in a single [...]
Yazan: Dave | 21 April 2013 | 1 Comment
Categories: General Gardening, Uncategorized, Vegetables
The different systems of crop rotation are as varied as the people who employ them. Some will have a four year plan and others will rotate every three years. Some will always start with potatoes and others will prefer to start with fertility building plants, such as edible legumes, usually peas and beans or green [...]
Yazan: Dave | 17 March 2013 | 3 Comments
Categories: foraging, Uncategorized, Wild foods
If you think about wild food do you picture a woodland miles from anywhere full of unusual plants and mushrooms with strange unpronounceable names? Perhaps foraging is something you know a little about and you regularly take your well thumbed copy of ‘food for free’ on long country walks trying desperately to find some of [...]
Yazan: Dave | 13 February 2013 | No Comments
Categories: General Gardening, Uncategorized
In the first part of where to garden I covered garden share schemes and community gardens. These are the obvious first choices but they are by no means all there is to offer for the garden-less gardener. Gardening indoors Taken from grow your food for free You may well grow indoor house-plants, but perhaps seldom [...]
Yazan: Dave | 02 October 2012 | 4 Comments
Categories: Budget living, foraging, Homemade, Lifestyle and Recipes, Uncategorized, Wild foods
During most of my autumn courses I either run through how to make hawthorn ketchup or I have some on hand to try (preferable both!). This year I thought I would at least get round to having the recipe up whilst they are in season . This makes a very red and very delicious ketchup [...]
Yazan: Dave | 26 May 2012 | No Comments
Categories: About Us, Budget living, Enivronmentally friendly, Events, foraging, Reference, Uncategorized, Wild foods
Dave Hamilton is a freelance writer, forager, garden tutor and garden consultant. His main work is as a garden writer and in this capacity he has written for (amongst others) BBC Gardener’s World Magazine, The Guardian and Grow Your Own. He co-authored the Self-Sufficient-ish Bible with his brother Andy and wrote the award winning book [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 18 April 2012 | No Comments
Categories: General Gardening, Uncategorized
Summer in the garden is beautiful, but hauling gallons of water from the kitchen tap to your beds is neither fun nor sustainable. Here’s some tips on how to drought-proof your plot First published in the Ecologist 2 years ago. Written by Andy Hamilton In this hot weather plants – and especially thirsty vegetables – [...]
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 [...]
