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
- Aug 1, 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...
wllmsutherland
- Aug 1, 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...
wllmsutherland
- Aug 1, 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...
wllmsutherland
- Jul 2, 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)...
wllmsutherland
- Jul 2, 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...
Will Sutherland
- May 30, 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...
Will Sutherland
- May 1, 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....
Will Sutherland
- Apr 10, 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...
Will Sutherland
- Apr 10, 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...
Will Sutherland
- Apr 3, 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...
Will Sutherland
- Mar 1, 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...
Will Sutherland
- Mar 1, 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...
Will Sutherland
- Mar 1, 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...
Will Sutherland
- Feb 8, 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...
Will Sutherland
- Feb 8, 2021
- 4 min
Our Serious Cognitive Dissonance – the invention of “Money” is our biggest mistake
Of course, the miseries of enforced lockdown have given most of us a chance to do some deep thinking about the state of the world – and...
Will Sutherland
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
While the garden sleeps, the workshop comes alive!
The Garden Very quiet in the winter garden. The curly kale is a healthy and very tasty winter green and the sprouting broccoli is waiting...
Will Sutherland
- Jan 16, 2021
- 4 min
And "Project Fear" goes on...
My sadness and anger at what is going on reaches new heights today. Have we really lost our reason? Is the almost fanatical belief in...
Will Sutherland
- Jan 16, 2021
- 1 min
The Garden Sleeps and one way to break down the blues: Music Outdoor!
In the garden the soil is resting now as we potter about when the weather is dry. I was able to spread the compost on a lovely bright...
Will Sutherland
- Dec 12, 2020
- 6 min
Boris's "Mindless Sheep"
More dreadful corona nonsense! I cannot remember a time when I have been more angry, sad and baffled by the mindless corona hysteria...
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