It was a delight to welcome Paula Reed of Good Housekeeping Magazine to meet our chickens!
We chatted about the joys and responsibilities of keeping hens and she enjoyed a cuddle or two.
Check out our course Urban Hens – Keeping Chickens in London
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Hen Corner to the rescue
There is a flock of ten hens in Brentford who have no idea how lucky they are. The former commercial egg-layers are becoming less productive with age, but still have many egg-laying years ahead of them, says Sara Ward, so she is resettling them at Hen Corner as their ‘forever home’. -
Today is World Bee Day, a time to celebrate our fabulous pollinators that have kept nature ticking over for millions of years. Without bees, we would lose a huge percentage of the foods we enjoy; fruit and vegetables, coffee and chocolate, not forgetting all that delicious honey. We rely on them to pollinate cotton crops so that we can wear t-shirts, jeans and linen blouses. Even our canvas trainers need bees to bring them about!
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Sara Ward has been at the Ideal Homes exhibition, proselytising about The Good Life.
‘I gave talks every day highlighting the joys of growing our own and keeping bees and chickens for honey and eggs – together these harvests can add up to thousands of pounds worth of food that we can gather in from our urban patches of green’. -
We’ve had the best time this month hosting The Edible Garden at the Ideal Home Show. Our friends from Omlet brought a shiny new Eglu, the team at Cultivate London brought a whole host of edible plants and we brought our chickens!
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A brief burst of warmth have kick started the bees’ activity at Hen Corner and when she hasn’t been running Easter courses, Sara Ward has been decamping bees into new homes. Plus a last minute competition for free tickets to the Ideal Home Show!
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If there’s anything to remind us that Easter is on its way, surely the sound of a clucking hen announcing her freshly laid egg ranks a little higher than endless aisles of chocolate in the supermarket.
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Sara’s appearance (on TV) reflects a wider shift we’re seeing across homes and gardens.
More people are looking for ways to make their living spaces work harder for them – from creating beautiful outdoor areas to growing herbs, vegetables and even keeping hens. It’s all part of a growing desire to live more sustainably while getting more enjoyment from our homes. -
When the production company who make the ITV show ‘Jimmy and Shivi’s Farmhouse Breakfast’ got in touch to say:
‘We feel that it is important for Shivi Ramoutar to show how food is also being produced in creative ways in her hometown in London.’
We invited her over to Hen Corner, of course!
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Sara Ward is living her best life, occupied with sprouting vegetation and reawakening honey bees.
This is her best time of year, she says, when everything in nature is coming to life.