Winter is a time to catch up and to get everything ready for next year.  Last year's failures and disappointments can be left in the pas...

It's hard to believe that we've never in 12 years of smallholding made our own sausages. You need a certain amount of equipment for ...

Someone noticed that alongside the two boxes which came back from the abattoir were two sheep skins. It is fairly easy to get the sheepskins...

Just a quick update on a couple of bits 'n' pieces. Garlic and Parsnips Firstly, as you can see. my garlic is doing pretty well this...

At the back end of 2020 I purchased some oca tubers. Oca is a South American tuber crop. They look a bit like small potatoes, but they are i...

A ground cover plant which grows in the shade, is edible and perennial. It's a forest gardener's dream. What about one whose local n...

On a similar note to the previous post, giants are stirring below the ground and stretching their leafy arms to reach the sky, revelling in ...

Most weekends I stay on the smallholding but last weekend Sue and I had booked to go along to a beeswax workshop in West Norfolk, courtesy o...