Mar 13Building a cob oven - part 1The cob oven was one of our earliest projects. What can beat wood-fired pizza?!
Mar 15, 2021Slow foodGlastonbury CND Festival 1987. Elvis Costello and Van Morrison were headlining. And in the Green Field, there was a display about...
Feb 9, 2021Life in the slow lanePre-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...
May 20, 2020Splitting our hive - part 4The final part of our mini-series coincides with peak swarm season - and we find out whether our new queen is laying...
May 6, 2020Splitting our hive - part 3It all goes horribly wrong - but not for the reasons we were expecting!
Apr 30, 2020Splitting our hive - part 2Two weeks after the split, it's time to see to check up and see if we've got a new queen...
Apr 19, 2020Splitting our hive - part 1With just a single colony, we were desperate to get some more bees. So we decided to split our hive into two...
Jan 13, 2019Preparing for chickensChickens are great company when you're pottering outside. They are a fantastic way for children to appreciate the natural cycle. They...
Sep 15, 2018Chicken, the foodTalking anthropomorphic animals are ever-present in so much of children's media. They play a big part in creating the...
Jul 16, 2018The enemy at the gatesMy 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 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...
Mar 19, 2018It's March already...Having chickens running around, laying fresh eggs... (nearly all the girls are laying!), fish swimming in the aquaponics greenhouse...
Mar 17, 2018Slugicide: does it matter how you kill slugs?After the initial success of the beer traps, the suicide rate plummeted. Despite being English, these slugs don’t love their beer enough...
Feb 6, 2018Slug WarsI recall the fun of digging the greenhouse to home the sump tank. I recall the excitement of seeing the aquaponic grow beds glistening in...
Jan 11, 2018The pecking orderMy father loved keeping chickens and for several years we watched them run around and enjoy his company. Sadly my father passed away last...
Sep 4, 2017The good life?We haven't quite worked out the meaning to life, the universe and everything - but we know the answer is 42 and that chickens are in...