There is no better therapy for bodily pain and discomfort than creative working in wood. During winter months I try to spend 2 or 3 hours each day in the w...

Back to Earth After the wettest autumn I can ever remember the weather has finally let up and routine work in the garden goes on. For many months the soil ha...

All in the garden is WET, WET, WET!! I can never remember such a wet “back-end”. There are still parsnips and beetroot in the ground, the broccoli is...

In the Garden (and in the Kitchen) September is a month of harvesting and “mellow fruitfulness”! Every two days I have been picking plums, runner beans...

Each year brings its surprises – its sad failures and its magnificent successes. 2019 has been no different. Spring was a strange one – mostly dry and cold b...

The seeds have spouted, sucking in the air Transforming its carbon without a care Powered by sunlight and the soil below Together it's magic that makes them ...

It's exciting when a new course begins on a Friday to imagine the interesting people (the students) I'm going to be working with in the coming week. On the s...

This month we are talking about spring in the garden - but you don't need a garden to experience the “force” of life! Anyone can make their own bread and fin...

Salad crops, courgettes and pumpkins are now germinating in the greenhouse. Potatoes, parsnips and celeriac are already under the soil in the garden. ...

So the leaves have fallen and the first frosts have put the garden into its winter sleep. I've scooped up most of the fallen leaves (the wind collects them b...

Composting and your New Year's Resolution On our small space-ship Earth, the long term future of our human civilization depends entirely on recycling. Th...

All gardeners know there old saying about parsnips - " first in, last out"! So here we are enjoying the true Autumn harvest which virtually clears the ga...

It has been an unusual year (again!). Our spring sowing was almost immediately followed by 6 weeks of blazing sunshine - not a good recipe for the germinatio...

Somehow the winter seems to have rushed past - so fast in fact that I have not had time to update this site! Apologies. The garden is pretty well cleared and...