How long to boil an egg
How to soft boil and hard boil eggs There are a few ideas on how to boil eggs, you may want to experiment with some until you find the one you feel comfortable with. Remember […]
What’s wrong with my compost?
Composting is not rocket science but it is easy to get it wrong. The trick is to have a balance of materials and not just throw it all in together and hope for the best. […]
Wild Food June
June is one of the few times I like being English. It is a time for strawberries and cream, Wimbledon, the Glastonbury festival and weekend pagans drinking heavily at their local standing stones. It is […]
Wild food in May – Late Spring Foraging – Food for free in May – Andy Hamilton
“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.” – Virgil May certainly feels like the time when […]
Our Philosophy
Not all of us have the means the space or are perhaps unwilling to give it all up and suffer the highs and lows of going it alone on a smallholding. […]
Thinking about keeping Bees? – By Philip Chandler of www.biobees.com
Whether you approach it from the point of view of conservation, entomology, crop pollination or simply a love of honey, beekeeping is an engaging pursuit and a fascinating window on the natural world. So […]
Getting ready to buy seeds?
It’s that time of year again that many of us are reaching for the seed catalogues and decided what we are going to fill those frosty winter beds with come the warmth of spring. Well […]
Book Review – Kids in the Garden
Not being a father makes it difficult to give this book a truly objective review. This troubled me somewhat, especially as I now generate the majority of my tiny income from writing and know how […]
Taking the fear out of wine making part 3 – Cheating and improving
The wine you made in Part 2 is by no means great. It’s OKish, but it has lots of faults. Think for a moment about drinking a reasonably good wine made from grapes. What are […]
Valentines Day Free Card and Present Ideas – By Andy Hamilton
We do what we can at self sufficient ‘ish’ to give you ingenious money and environment saving ideas. This is why our resident cartoonist Spencer Hill was commissioned to draw this card. Click on either […]