Bird Food Recipe – Vegan Fat Balls

  I think there is something fundamentally British about feeding the birds.  Maybe it’s my distant memories of watching Mary Poppins as a child, humming along to Julie Andrews singing ‘Feed the Birds’ or,  it’s memories of my grandparents and their obsession with buying either bird seed or a new feeder every time we went […]

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What’s in your compost?

It’s been a good while since I have written a blog post.  3 years to be exact… where has that time gone?!  Maybe I’ve just been waiting to write about something worthwhile.  Maybe, I’ve just been distracted by all the pretty pictures on Instagram.  Either way, I’ve written something new and it’s surprising how productive […]

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No Waste Vegan Green Pesto

We’ve been busy at the allotment and generally in life.  Hence, the minimal blog posts lately. Since we started growing our own food and looking after the plot, it has become more and more apparent that we want to edge towards a no waste lifestyle.  With this in mind, we have started to try and […]

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A Tale of Eaten Brassica

We had a wonderful day getting the first sowing of brassica into open ground a few weeks ago. They had been burning a hole in their pots, getting bigger and bigger. But the ground hadn’t been fully prepared.  Once the soil was dug over, they were put into position and they looked pretty awesome and […]

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