Have you heard of Purple Dragon? It’s a group of members clubs for families. When Ellie Fassnidge contacted us for an interview for their Winter Tales Magazine, we were more than happy to share our thoughts on encouraging children to learn new skills.
I often get asked whether we eat our own chickens, especially when they stop laying eggs, and when I explain that the chickens can continue to lay regularly for over 6 years and the average age of the chicken in the butchers shop is 6 week, people soon guess that an old bird won’t be that succulent.
It was a pleasure to welcome Emily Bevan for lunch at Hen Corner recently, and an absolute delight to read her ‘Big Smallholder Interview’ in Country Smallholding Magazine… Though we’ve…
There’s always a few people that sigh when Christmas is mentioned before December, but I’m a firm believer in getting ready, planning and preparing so that when we light the advent candle we open the door to a whole month of celebrating.
When Bridget Osborne, editor of local website The Chiswick Calendar, wanted to write a piece about Hen Corner, we invited her to join us for a course so that she could really experience a taste of the good life. Read her feature here accompanied by delicious photos from James Willcocks.
It’s always busy in September. We take the honey off the bees, the apples off the trees and get busy filtering, fermenting, preserving and potting up ready to stash away for colder days or sell to local customers.
When Vanessa Feltz wanted to discuss keeping chickens in London on her BBC Radio London Breakfast Show, we were delighted that she invited Barbara, our Gold Partridge Brahma, and Sara in to the studio for a chat.
The Green Queens…
This year is the first year that I’ve used a ‘proper’ queen marking pen – yes, there is such a thing – and I haven’t been the most neat of artists whilst using it. Previous years have found me sporting an old bottle of nail varnish and, as you can see in the photo above, blue glitter was quite a favourite.
Nothing quite epitomises the British summer like berries and cream… This is the theme for our July feature in Country Living Magazine – The Good Life in the City. Country…
Oops I did it again…
This week on one of my favourite courses, A Day at Hen Corner, I made a classic ‘schoolgirl error’. Well, that might not be the best way of describing it as we didn’t make jam at school – probably too much risk letting teenagers boil sugar to very high temperatures. However, it was a mistake that I’ve made on more than one occasion before.