Glastonbury CND Festival 1987. Elvis Costello and Van Morrison were headlining. And in the Green Field, there was a display about...

Before we started regular baking we were avid consumers of supermarket sourdough. We appreciated the hand-made approach and natural...

In Britain today, around 80% of the bread we consume is manufactured using the Chorleywood Bead Process (CBP). This process, invented in...

How we built our wormery using an old IBC.

Natural Progress HQ go all TikToky...

The final part of our mini-series coincides with peak swarm season - and we find out whether our new queen is laying...

It all goes horribly wrong - but not for the reasons we were expecting!

Two weeks after the split, it's time to see to check up and see if we've got a new queen...

With just a single colony, we were desperate to get some more bees. So we decided to split our hive into two...

I was recently asked to speak on a panel as part of International Women's Day. Naturally I chose a sustainability theme...

Chickens are great company when you're pottering outside. They are a fantastic way for children to appreciate the natural cycle. They...

Talking anthropomorphic animals are ever-present in so much of children's media. They play a big part in creating the...

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...

We thought we'd introduce our six chickens - which we acquired back in January. These were bought from chickenshighwycombe.com - working...

*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...

Having chickens running around, laying fresh eggs... (nearly all the girls are laying!), fish swimming in the aquaponics greenhouse...

After the initial success of the beer traps, the suicide rate plummeted. Despite being English, these slugs don’t love their beer enough...

I recall the fun of digging the greenhouse to home the sump tank. I recall the excitement of seeing the aquaponic grow beds glistening in...

My father loved keeping chickens and for several years we watched them run around and enjoy his company. Sadly my father passed away last...

Part 1 covered the build, and part 2 the plumbing. In this post I'll cover the growing media, plants and fish. The choice of growing...