It was nice and sunny last weekend, so I spent a few hours tidying up the greenhouse.
We picked the last of the tomatoes at Christmas, so I emptied all the spent pots onto the compost heap and put the empties away in the shed. I swept up all the old leaves, dead bees and cobwebs […]
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Hugh and Pippa Stables run Wandering Ewe Dairy in North Somerset. They produce a hard, unpasteurised, ewes’ milk cheese from their own flock of sheep. 2021 was their third year of commercial cheese production. This is the third of 12 monthly blogs, which are intended to give a flavour of the year.
The shortest day is […]
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I’m so excited, because I’ve just arranged a compost delivery from one of our local farms. I’m expecting a tonne of well-rotted cow manure to arrive in January. That’s what can happen if you start chatting about the relative merits of different manures when you visit your farm shop! I could have chosen horse or […]
...Created eight years ago, the Slow Food awards are truly democratic – with no prior shortlisting, the winners are simply chosen by whoever gets the most votes. These Awards are so powerful in highlighting Good, Clean and Fair, that like last year, thousands of you voted over the summer. Each nation has its own winners, with the highest number of votes in […]
...Created eight years ago, the Slow Food awards are truly democratic – with no prior shortlisting, the winners are simply chosen by whoever gets the most votes. These Awards are so powerful in highlighting Good, Clean and Fair, that like last year, thousands of you voted over the summer. Each nation has its own winners, with the highest number of votes in […]
...Created eight years ago, the Slow Food awards are truly democratic – with no prior shortlisting, the winners are simply chosen by whoever gets the most votes. These Awards are so powerful in highlighting Good, Clean and Fair, that like last year, thousands of you voted over the summer. Each nation has its own winners, with the highest number of votes in […]
...Created eight years ago, the Slow Food awards are truly democratic – with no prior shortlisting, the winners are simply chosen by whoever gets the most votes. These Awards are so powerful in highlighting Good, Clean and Fair, that like last year, thousands of you voted over the summer. Each nation has its own winners, with the highest number of votes in […]
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Do you have a Christmas speciality? A recipe you’ve perfected over years; your go-to Christmas present for neighbours and teachers? My Christmas speciality is Gingerbread.
We make gingerbread every year. We always make biscuits – usually stars and people. I particularly like stacking up different sized stars to make little fir trees, dripping icing snow over […]
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Hugh and Pippa Stables run Wandering Ewe Dairy in North Somerset. They produce a hard, unpasteurised, ewes’ milk cheese from their own flock of sheep. 2021 was their third year of commercial cheese production. This is the second of 12 monthly blogs, which are intended to give a flavour of the year.
We are approaching peak […]
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If you’re looking for a year-round vegetable then Perpetual Spinach is it. I can harvest Perpetual Spinach from the same plant in all 12 months of the year.
Perpetual spinach is in fact a chard – it’s other name is Spinach Beet – but you’d hardly know it. Whereas Silverbeet and Rainbow chard have thick white […]
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