We’ve been living the Good Life recently; the kitchen garden is booming, we’ve harvested nearly £700 worth of food, the bees are making honey and the new chicks have hatched…
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Last weekend I was fortunate to participate in a Butchery and Charcuterie Course, this was my Christmas present from Andy and I’d been waiting for months for the day to come around.
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What a week we had! 300 children met our chickens on Monday, 22 pre-school children and their grown ups helped with the bee keeping on Tuesday and 60 children baked…
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Yesterday was a good day, OK it was sopping wet with so much rain that we had to postpone our Full Day Bee Keeping Course, but we had some super…
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We had been planning it since last August and finally the day came around for our first greenwood craft day at Hen Corner. It was great to work with guest…
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Regular readers may remember reading about our renovations in the Kitchen Garden earlier this year, the hoops and nets are really successful at keeping the chickens/cats/pigeons/foxes/etc. off our raised beds…
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We have enjoyed numerous egg hunts this week, searching for the tiniest eggs laid by our queen bees, through the colourful eggs of our hens to the largest chocolate eggs…
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Sara has just returned from a wonderful week contributing to the programme of talks at the Country Living Spring Fair, it was lovely to meet so many people who had…
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This week has seen the bees flying, the almond tree in full blossom, frog spawn in the pond and happy hens pecking around the lawn. Spring is here!…
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Jane Mason is back in town… Though not for long! Jane, who heads up Virtuous Bread, spends most of her time living in Mexico but always catches up with the…