Here’s a throwback to a short film that we made for Country Living Magazine, as part of Celebrate At Home with Country Living virtual event which took place in May…
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Wheat is Neat!
I’ve sown a field – a field of wheat! Sorry if I’ve already told you about it (if you follow us on Instagram, you may have seen some photos and reels) – I’ve been telling everybody because I’m really excited about it. I mean it is a small field, six square metres, but I’m ‘actually’ growing wheat in my back garden and I’m going to tend it, harvest it, thresh it, mill it and bake it into a loaf of bread – oooh, I feel like Little Red Hen!
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Happy Birthday to us, Happy Birthday to us!
Oh my, I still remember that evening with friends when we were typing all sorts of word combinations into the search engine seeing if we could find something that was unique and reflected all that we held dear. -
Come on you Bees!
Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s with great pleasure that I officially announce that this year’s Bee Keeping Season is officially open!
With it always being a little warmer in London, Spring seems to start a little earlier (if you follow us on Instagram, you may have seen that our first spears of asparagus peeped through almost a month early in mid March) and the bees have been out foraging for a plethora of local nectar for many weeks already. Read the full post here. -
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…