Women and networking
With International Women's Day falling this week, I thought I'd recount a recent experience. As fate would have it, I was able to attend...
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- Feb 25
The Chickmobile
We had a bit of interest in the design and build of our chicken coop so here's a quick tour. We had a fairly exacting design brief: First...
- Dec 14, 2022
The 'Greening the Desert' permaculture site in Jordan
We took some time out on our recent trip to Jordan and Palestine to visit the ‘Greening the Desert’ site in Jordan. This is Nadia and...
- Apr 30, 2022
Permaculture Design Course
On International Permaculture Day, I'm happy to report that I'm now a certified permaculture designer!
- Apr 20, 2022
Building a cob oven - part 3
In our final instalment we finish the oven and get cooking!
- Mar 15, 2022
Building a cob oven - part 2
Mixing the cob and building the oven walls.
- Mar 13, 2022
Building a cob oven - part 1
The cob oven was one of our earliest projects. What can beat wood-fired pizza?!
- Jan 5, 2022
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 24, 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 24, 2020
Beekeepers Oh Na Na Na dance challenge!
Natural Progress HQ go all TikToky...
- May 20, 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 6, 2020
Splitting our hive - part 3
It all goes horribly wrong - but not for the reasons we were expecting!
- Apr 30, 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 19, 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...
- Dec 12, 2019
Emerald 100
We're delighted to report that Ayesha has been included in the Emerald 100 - a list of 100 inspiring Muslims compiled by the Emerald Network
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