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Observing and Discovering Nature
I love nature. Nature is reliable, predictable and a constant in a chaotic world. Even more so at present. As the human coronavirus crisis develops and throws the lives of everyone into a dramatic, unfamiliar and worrying dimension, nature remains stable. Blossom is still forming, nests are being built, spring bulbs are blooming. Nature continues … Continue reading Observing and Discovering Nature
Grow Your Own Potatoes
With the importing of food contributing to climate change, growing your own food in back gardens, schools and community allotments has increased in popularity over recent years. And in today’s uncertain times and times of potential food shortages, supplementing our purchased diets with home grown is an even more vital and valuable activity. Plus, growing … Continue reading Grow Your Own Potatoes
Grow Your Own Wedding Buttonhole
This years’ challenge! With a wedding in June (no 1 son is marrying his lovely fiancée) this year we’ll be attempting to grow the flowers for our family’s wedding button holes and for setting in resin to make wedding day bangles. The colour theme for the big day is blues and lavenders. Having never … Continue reading Grow Your Own Wedding Buttonhole
Learning through food
I love growing, cooking, and eating! But, I worry that our food culture has irreversibly become an industry of mass farmed, mass produced and mass prepared quick convenience, fast food. And at what cost? Are our children being kneaded into a generation who do not have the knowledge and skills to grow food, to cook, … Continue reading Learning through food