Building a cob oven - part 3
In our final instalment we finish the oven and get cooking!
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- Mar 15
Building a cob oven - part 2
Mixing the cob and building the oven walls.
- Mar 13
Building a cob oven - part 1
The cob oven was one of our earliest projects. What can beat wood-fired pizza?!
- Jan 5
Jobs for the bees
Recently we've been talking to the local community about bees. It's been a great opportunity to connect with those who are keen to know...
- Mar 15, 2021
Slow food
Glastonbury CND Festival 1987. Elvis Costello and Van Morrison were headlining. And in the Green Field, there was a display about...
- Feb 9, 2021
Life in the slow lane
Pre-pandemic, we were working most of the time in London which left us only the weekends to manage our little set up. Now we are...
- Nov 14, 2020
Supermarket sourdough
Before we started regular baking we were avid consumers of supermarket sourdough. We appreciated the hand-made approach and natural...
- Oct 25, 2020
Industrial bread... I never knew there was so much in it :(
In Britain today, around 80% of the bread we consume is manufactured using the Chorleywood Bead Process (CBP). This process, invented in...
- Aug 16, 2020
Worm composting
How we built our wormery using an old IBC.
- May 25, 2020
Beekeepers Oh Na Na Na dance challenge!
Natural Progress HQ go all TikToky...
- May 21, 2020
Splitting our hive - part 4
The final part of our mini-series coincides with peak swarm season - and we find out whether our new queen is laying...
- May 7, 2020
Splitting our hive - part 3
It all goes horribly wrong - but not for the reasons we were expecting!
- May 1, 2020
Splitting our hive - part 2
Two weeks after the split, it's time to see to check up and see if we've got a new queen...
- Apr 20, 2020
Splitting our hive - part 1
With just a single colony, we were desperate to get some more bees. So we decided to split our hive into two...
- Mar 13, 2020
International Women's Day 2020
I was recently asked to speak on a panel as part of International Women's Day. Naturally I chose a sustainability theme...
- Jan 13, 2019
Preparing for chickens
Chickens are great company when you're pottering outside. They are a fantastic way for children to appreciate the natural cycle. They...
- Sep 16, 2018
Chicken, the food
Talking anthropomorphic animals are ever-present in so much of children's media. They play a big part in creating the...
- Jul 17, 2018
The enemy at the gates
My father was the one who had kept chickens. There's a story about how he got started but this isn't it. Instead this is about how we...
- Apr 27, 2018
Our chickens
We thought we'd introduce our six chickens - which we acquired back in January. These were bought from chickenshighwycombe.com - working...
- Apr 14, 2018
Look no hands! Feeding fish on holiday*
*No, not when the fish are on holiday. When we are. Fish keeping best practice is apparently to feed by hand as it provides a routine to...