Mar 13Building a cob oven - part 1The cob oven was one of our earliest projects. What can beat wood-fired pizza?!
Apr 14, 2018Look 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...
Nov 5, 2017Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 3Part 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...
Sep 7, 2017Build 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...
Sep 5, 2017Build your own aquaponics greenhouse - part 1I first heard about aquaponics at a permaculture talk in London. One of the speakers, Richard Tatum, described the aquaponics...
Sep 3, 2017Small is beautifulFor about eighteen months we've been searching for a smallholding property to buy. Somewhere with two or three acres, a nice house, not...