scouring (washing) fleece by Red
Method 1: by Red you will need: a washing up bowl washing soda crystals washing up liquid hot water The method I use is to only work on a small part of fleece at a […]
Taking the fear out of winemaking part 2 – By MKG
Part 1 – Getting rid of the fairy stories – is available here. Messing around in a bucket Those somewhat fictitious “traditional” ancestors of ours made wine in anything they could find. Usually, they would […]
Andy Hamilton
Andy is available for public speaking, freelance features, corporate and personal forages (wild food walks) and on a consultancy basis. To contact him please Email in the first instance – Andy at selfsufficientish dot com. (for Dave simply put Dave). […]
Taking the fear out of wine making part 1 – By MKG
Getting rid of the fairy stories If I said to a fairly representative group “Take some fruit juice, squeeze some lemon juice into it, empty a bag of sugar into it, top up to about […]
Budget Christmas Part 2 – Merry Ishmas – Free Christmas ideas by Andy Hamilton
A couple of years ago I wrote about Selfsufficientish Christmas ideas. This year I have given Christmas my own twist and called it Ishmas. Ishmas is sustainable and thoughtful and it is more about the […]
Elsinore Bread by Andy Hamilton
Although I’m not entirely sure where this bread got its name from, perhaps it was baked in Shakespearian times. The only reference I can find for Elsinore is from the city in Denmark where Hamlet […]
Christmas Ideas Part one – Cards, photos, herbs and other thoughtful yet cheap presents.
Does Father Christmas/Santa exist? Of course he does. However, he has to deliver to 1.8 million homes so we want to help him out. Here’s a few ideas and Mr Christmas if you are reading this I actually do want socks this Christmas and I have been a good boy (pretty much). […]
Frost Gardeners friend or foe? – Andy Hamilton
Frost can be a gardeners friend or enemy, it is early February as I write and I am eagerly awaiting a frost to help break down the big clods of earth I have turned on […]
Wild Flower Gardens
This method of establishing a wild flower garden I stumbled on quite by mistake and have since encouraged others to try the same. After harvesting my carrots I left the land-fallow, I no longer wanted […]