Another trip to ponder the world
MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE! Today I write from Germany where the trains run smoothly at 250 Km/hr, the farmers routinely use...
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The John Seymour School
for Self-Sufficiency
wllmsutherland
- 7 févr.
- 3 Min
IN THE WORLD
My trip to New Zealand took me to Dubai, Australia and Singapore. My experience of the great cities of these places contrasted strongly...
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wllmsutherland
- 7 févr.
- 3 Min
Catching up with Winter tasks
Just back from New Zealand and it's time to press on with the vital winter tasks – pruning the soft fruits and espaliered trees and...
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wllmsutherland
- 7 févr.
- 2 Min
Course Dates 2023
Once again, our students will stay in the picturesque village of Low Newton by the Sea and practical sessions will take place at the...
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wllmsutherland
- 8 janv.
- 4 Min
Dispatches from New Zealand - Part 2
FIRST THE GOOD NEWS I'm still enjoying the sun in beautiful New Zealand whilst the garden sleeps through an English winter. While the...
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wllmsutherland
- 7 déc. 2022
- 5 Min
MY TRIP “DOWN UNDER”
This month’s news comes to you from “down under” in New Zealand. I am enjoying a second summer visiting my eldest son in Wellington. It's...
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wllmsutherland
- 15 nov. 2022
- 5 Min
Closed for Winter (mostly!)
The garden has but a few chicory and cabbages left in it, and the soil is having a rest. But meanwhile... FARMING DILEMMAS! Modern...
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wllmsutherland
- 7 oct. 2022
- 2 Min
Such Tragic Hubris!
This month I had my 77th birthday and decided to spoil myself by writing a new doggerel just to release some of the constant “bees in my...
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wllmsutherland
- 7 oct. 2022
- 3 Min
Winding down in the garden
It's Autumn in the garden. Time for fungi, rain and autumn harvest. The wonders of nature are manifest in this magnificent rainbow and...
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wllmsutherland
- 15 sept. 2022
- 1 Min
Getting ready for winter
GET READY FOR POWER CUTS As always I tell all my supporters to get ready for power cuts this winter. The simplest answer is a generator...
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wllmsutherland
- 15 sept. 2022
- 2 Min
August turns to September
The time for autumn harvest is here as we come to the end of the productive garden season. The rains have arrived too which will boost...
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wllmsutherland
- 9 août 2022
- 5 Min
Latest thoughts... and RHINO!
Covid – my final word My latest doggerel has just been published for the wider world by The Conservative Woman The Tories' little...
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wllmsutherland
- 9 août 2022
- 2 Min
July in the garden
Harvesting continues in the garden. All the black currants and gooseberries have been processed now – as always it's a much longer job...
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wllmsutherland
- 6 juil. 2022
- 3 Min
THE SADNESS OF OUR 'MAKE BELIEVE' WORLD
I meet a lot of “good” people in my work and play. Many times I am asked about the meaning of “self-sufficiency” and why it might be...
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wllmsutherland
- 6 juil. 2022
- 1 Min
Summer is here!
At last the rains came and the garden bloomed! Salad, new potatoes and berries are now in full supply; the beans are shooting up their...
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wllmsutherland
- 8 juin 2022
- 2 Min
Greed, War and greater Crimes
THE EARTH IS NOW IN THE GRIP OF TERMINAL GREED Gates, Biden, Zuckerberg, Musk, Soros, Biden, Fauci, Zelensky, Johnson, Macron, Trudeau,...
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wllmsutherland
- 8 juin 2022
- 5 Min
Plants have sprung and summer nearly here.
It's the end of May, the garden is in full flow and there is lots to talk about. Weather has not been great – cold, dry and breezy - but...
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wllmsutherland
- 4 mai 2022
- 2 Min
The war in Ukraine
WAR I have to write about the Ukraine war So many western follies went before The US and EU played with weasel words Gave cash to...
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wllmsutherland
- 4 mai 2022
- 3 Min
April showers? Alas not!
It has been a long cold spring in the garden and it's now desperate for rain! We've just finished our first SS course of the year (and...
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wllmsutherland
- 31 mars 2022
- 3 Min
March Days
We have passed the spring equinox now and the pace in the garden is slowly picking up. There is still tidying to be done and, while the...
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wllmsutherland
- 31 mars 2022
- 4 Min
There is a rough road ahead...
My Conclusions Get yourself a small (2-3 Kw generator). Get yourself a small pedal 5v generator for charging your phone. Get a Swarey...
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wllmsutherland
- 4 mars 2022
- 4 Min
The Ukraine
OBAMA AND BIDEN PLAYED DANGEROUS GAMES IN 2014! Like the huge under-water bulk of an iceberg, the situation in Ukraine is just the very...
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wllmsutherland
- 4 mars 2022
- 1 Min
Early sowings
Suddenly we seem to have reached March! The artichokes are doing what artichokes do but, more exciting, we have new blossom on the...
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wllmsutherland
- 9 févr. 2022
- 2 Min
OUR RESIDENTIAL COURSES IN 2022
**UPDATE 31st Mar 2022** - The April course has been slow to fill up, so we are now offering the remaining spaces at a discount of 20%...
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wllmsutherland
- 9 févr. 2022
- 4 Min
Earth's Long Carbon Story
Thanks to the magic of photosynthesis the Earth's green plants have been collecting vast quantities of carbon every sunlit minute of...
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wllmsutherland
- 9 févr. 2022
- 1 Min
The Great Christmas Carbon Fest
It's a big warm job for cold Christmas weather – emptying and spreading the year's supply of lovely compost. The first step is to peel...
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wllmsutherland
- 10 janv. 2022
- 5 Min
LIFE IS A ‘GAME’ AND NOT A ‘TEST’ - Covid's exciting end-game in 2022!
So, the cosmos does have a sense of humour! Last week I spent a fairly grim half-day writing what I thought would be a suitably profound...
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wllmsutherland
- 10 janv. 2022
- 1 Min
Year-end Garden - December 2021
Yes, it's winter in the garden and the rain is still lashing down outside my window. Dry cold weather will come – I know – and then it...
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wllmsutherland
- 15 déc. 2021
- 1 Min
In the garden - winter
Huge waves are crashing onto the rocks as the freezing sleet whips past in the winter gale. Yes, it is indeed “winter”. The garden is...
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wllmsutherland
- 12 déc. 2021
- 2 Min
When will the collective covid madness end?
As a mathematician and scientist myself I find the conclusions of statisticians and mathematicians more interesting and reliable than the...
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wllmsutherland
- 7 nov. 2021
- 5 Min
Information for COP26
Three cheers for Boris project fear It's clear the end is nowhere near Gripped by panic, the facts opaque Big pharma rules in this big...
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wllmsutherland
- 7 nov. 2021
- 2 Min
Winter is almost here! November
The winter is coming and things are quiet in the garden but there is still lots of good food to be harvested. It's November and the...
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wllmsutherland
- 15 oct. 2021
- 6 Min
COP26 - The Epitome of Global Madness
Let's face it - we are fossil fuel junkies! By the time you read this the madness of COP26 will be almost upon us. We will hear more...
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wllmsutherland
- 15 oct. 2021
- 1 Min
Winter approaches - September
Our harvesting continues as winter approaches. There is a profusion of plums, apples and raspberries whilst the carrots were...
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wllmsutherland
- 6 sept. 2021
- 6 Min
THE MYSTERIES OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES!
The latest consultation paper from the Bank of England (on Central Bank Digital Currency) paves the way for the greatest change in the...
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wllmsutherland
- 6 sept. 2021
- 2 Min
Summer's end - late August
In the garden, the twin activities of harvesting and tidying up continue. After several rounds of harvesting, the peas and French beans...
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wllmsutherland
- 1 août 2021
- 3 Min
THE SCYTHE AS A “STALKING HORSE” FOR CULTURAL CHANGE!
For more than 200 years the human race has augmented its physical presence on Earth by using large quantities of stored sunlight (fossil...
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wllmsutherland
- 1 août 2021
- 2 Min
Self-Sufficiency Community News
Composting Our plan to provide 2 new “proper” composting bins to take food waste from the village school is progress well. We have...
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wllmsutherland
- 1 août 2021
- 2 Min
Our Summer Garden 'Jungle' - late July
It's almost impossible to believe how the rush of summer growth turns bare soil into something more like very productive “jungle”! We are...
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wllmsutherland
- 2 juil. 2021
- 1 Min
In the wider world
I have been re-watching “the Handmaid's Tale” which is a very sobering reminder of just how easily our governments (with corporate help)...
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wllmsutherland
- 2 juil. 2021
- 3 Min
A Garden in Full Bloom
What's to say about a garden in full bloom? Yes, we had a hard spell of very dry cool weather but deep soil and good shelter gave our...
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Will Sutherland
- 30 mai 2021
- 2 Min
It's growing in the garden!
Yes, the garden is growing and the sun is shining. The harvesting of wonderful salad has taken over from the cutting of succulent...
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Will Sutherland
- 1 mai 2021
- 3 Min
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SPRING?
It seems that the mysteries of global warming have brought us the driest and coldest April for 50 years – and the plants have hated it....
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Will Sutherland
- 10 avr. 2021
- 4 Min
MANKIND'S BIGGEST MACHINE AND THE BIG QUESTION
In life's long and magical journey from the big bang to the present day there have been a series of amazing leaps forward. It began with...
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Will Sutherland
- 10 avr. 2021
- 7 Min
Covid Mysteries
Agatha Christie could not have created and a more convoluted or mysterious plot. Ian Fleming could not have imagined more exotic and...
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Will Sutherland
- 3 avr. 2021
- 3 Min
April in the garden
This month my dear old little workhorse rotavator has been busy again, preparing beds for spring planting and knocking the emerging “City...
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Will Sutherland
- 1 mars 2021
- 2 Min
It's March already in the garden
It is March already; dry weather at last and cultivating has begun. It took me just a couple of pleasant hours to weed and rotavate 3 of...
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Will Sutherland
- 1 mars 2021
- 5 Min
"Hubris" and the Soil
I'm talking about Suckerberg, Gates, Bezos, Pichal, Musk and most of the set at the World Economic Forum. The ancient Greeks regarded...
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Will Sutherland
- 1 mars 2021
- 11 Min
GAIA – From Chaos to Cosmos - Elisabet Sahtouris 1989
Introduction “ We are wrong to devote our attention to saving or managing nature. Gaia will save herself – with or without us – and...
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Will Sutherland
- 8 févr. 2021
- 1 Min
Today's COVID Fact check
We don't know how many deaths were caused BY covid as this is not recorded on death certificates. The “deaths WITH covid” definition...
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