The spring bulbs are flowering, the hens are laying abundantly, the bees are flying and our Easter bakes and activities are getting booked up.
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I couldn’t possibly show you all that beautiful bread without celebrating the wonderful bakers that made it, could I?
This was the latest team from Brompton Bikes who came to Hen Corner to celebrate the end of their ‘On Boarding’ programme and are now fully integrated team members. -
Some you lose…
One day last month when I was checking that the chickens had food and water, I did a quick head count and discovered one missing from the middle flock. I worked out which one by process of elimination and when I opened up the hen house, found her cold and dead. It’s always sad, but I reassured myself that she’d had a long life, most dates seem to be classified as pre or post pandemic nowadays, and can’t have been very ill or in much pain as she’d been running around the garden just the day before. Click through for full post with brighter news!
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Introducing the first of our new regular posts on The Chiswick Calendar:
Learning lessons and looking forward
As we hunker down, whilst the nights are still long and the fairy lights have been packed away, we have the opportunity to look at the year ahead, as a blank canvas, and dare to dream before the weeks turn into months and the fruit trees are in blossom again. -
To those who wait…
Regular readers may recall that last year’s ambition was to grow all the vegetables for our award winning Piccalilli. We sowed all the seeds in good time but, due to the various usual challenges of slow germination/too hot/too cold/too fast/too slow/too wet/too dry/slugs/pigeons/caterpillars/etc. we didn’t quite manage to harvest the full range. -
T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house Cocoa and Chanel were chasing a mouse…
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The Country Smallholder Magazine has featured our Urban Smallholding in it’s magazine, and whilst I can definitely identify with the other pieces on poultry and preserving your harvest, I think the pages on big machinery and tractor reviews is a bit beyond our London back garden!
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What a lovely surprise to see Hen Corner featured as a main attraction at the Country Living Christmas Fair in Harrogate this week – Can’t wait!
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We are in the final weeks of the climb up to Christmas and we are here to help you all the way!
Whether it’s baking ahead, homemade decorations, or edible gifting – look no further.
If it’s gift ideas that you are looking for – we’ve got you covered. -
Keep reading for our Country Living Christmas Competition…
I am so loving my relationship with cheese, and whilst I’ve been making it for around 13 years, my intrigue and passion was reignited last October when we visited Kerry in Ireland and met a Dutch man who makes Gouda cheese in his converted spare bedroom using milk from his Jersey cows that he keeps down the lane.