Projects

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...

Building a cob oven - part 3

In our final instalment we finish the oven and get cooking!

Building a cob oven - part 2

Mixing the cob and building the oven walls.

Building a cob oven - part 1

The cob oven was one of our earliest projects. What can beat wood-fired pizza?!

Worm composting

How we built our wormery using an old IBC.

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...

Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 3

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...

Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 2

* Geekery warning * Apparently, this post is heavy on technical detail and somewhat light on comedic anecdotes. (Personally, I'm ok with...

Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 1

I first heard about aquaponics at a permaculture talk in London. One of the speakers, Richard Tatum, described the aquaponics...

Small is beautiful

For about eighteen months we've been searching for a smallholding property to buy. Somewhere with two or three acres, a nice house, not...