This June issue of Gardeners’ World Magazine includes the sixth part of my series ‘Growing the Good Life’.
What a delight that this dropped through my letterbox on World Bee Day! This piece gives an insight into my role as a beekeeper and celebrates seasonal treats such as our strawberry beds on the allotment.
The bees are swarming early this year, says Sara Ward, who as well as growing all sorts of fruit and veg and keeping chickens at Hen Corner in Brentford, keeps bees. The bees are not alone in getting ahead of themselves because of the unusually hot spring we’ve had…
This May issue of Gardeners’ World Magazine includes the fifth part of my series ‘Growing the Good Life’.
We are harvesting our broad beans, collecting elderflowers to make cordial, thinning out lettuces and share our delicious recipe for broad bean hummus.
Easter is definitely the time to celebrate new life, be that first early potatoes, planted last month, needing to be earthed up already to cover their dark green foliage, spotting frog spawn in the pond or lifting a broody hen off a clutch of eggs that will never hatch as we don’t keep roosters here.
This April issue of Gardeners’ World Magazine includes the fourth part of my series ‘Growing the Good Life’.
We are busy sowing seeds, protecting fruit trees and enjoying early blossom. We are earthing up potatoes and starting regular inspections of the beehives.
When we ‘grow our own’ we save money, reduce our carbon footprint and enjoy both the time outside and the fruits of our labour.
Our column in this issue of Out & About Magazine features our exciting new TWO DAY course, Making Cheddar, Stilton & Sourdough and invites you to join in our special events celebrating Easter:
Introduction to Easter Baking
Easter at Hen Corner
Read all about it in Out & About Magazine
Our latest post on The Chiswick Calendar – Sara Ward on Living the Good Life:
Springtime is when Hen Corner really comes into its own, with the first yields of purple sprouting broccoli, asparagus almost ready and the hens happily laying again.
Read about spring at Hen Corner on The Chiswick Calendar website.
This March issue of Gardeners’ World Magazine includes the third part of my series ‘Growing the Good Life’.
At the beginning of spring we are still harvesting winter veg on the allotment, planting out seed potatoes and celebrating all those new season eggs with an easy Hollandaise Sauce recipe to serve with homegrown asparagus.
Last month, a local school, Ealing Independent College, asked if we could help support their French GCSE curriculum by hosting a French baking class. The plan was to teach the…
Our latest post on The Chiswick Calendar – Sara Ward on Living the Good Life: It’s time to celebrate Real Bread Week at Hen Corner in Brentford! In this month’s guest…