Like most smallholders we still work part-time, the holy grail of living off the land proving elusive in the current unsustainable era of cheap industrial food which hides the true costs of production. Continue reading
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Here we go Round the Mulberry Twig
Here we go round the Mulberry twig probably wouldn’t have made such a catchy nursery rhyme.
Everybody knows it’s a mulberry bush. And they can eventually grow to a whopping 10m across.
The trouble is those bushes of nursery rhyme fame start off life as, well… a tiny tree twig sapling. Continue reading
The March to Spring
And then there were three. I’m still not quite sure how it’s happened. We had always envisaged space for three veg beds. But after the great effort made by an army of friends to get the first one going, I’d assumed numbers two and three would have to wait a while yet. Continue reading
The Secret Acre 