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

Mixing the cob and building the oven walls.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

*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...

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...