They just don’t fit anywhere. A bit like clothes scattered on a bedroom floor… or it’s because I’ve not categorised them anywhere, including those old, imported Tumblr posts.
Update: I have no plans to run face to face gatherings or courses. All the following should be considered archived. After more demand than I could meet in 2019, I’m happy to offer more courses in 2020. The following is what’s confirmed so far. More details will be added as soon as I have them.… Read More Permaculture courses 2020
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Composting at home is simple if you follow some basic principles. Home made compost is a valuable, organic resource to help grow healthy plants. ***I’ll be teaching composting and other organic ways to manage your garden in the Prosper workshop at Whistlewood Common, Derbyshire on Sunday 10 June 2018.*** Where to start Brown and green. Or,… Read More Composting 101
From gardens we can create healthy systems – whether that’s in our guts or wider reaching into our neighbourhoods. I grow more plants in my front garden than the back. Admittedly we have more space at the front, and the back is a dingy north-facing yard, quite dark and damp. The front is a sun… Read More Proliferation – it’s time for more gardens
As part of Le Tour de Yorkshire, 2014 a group of people from across York came together to create something incredible. Inspired by the Incredible Edible movement, and the concepts of ‘Just get on with it and make it happen’ and ‘If you eat you’re in’, we hatched a plan and got on with it.… Read More Incredible Edible Bike Rides around York
This is an in depth to do list with tips to help guide you step by step through preparing for moving house. Moving house can be stressful, is always frantic, and can be productive without leaving you wanting to hide among your boxes. The aim of this project was to plan for our move from… Read More Moving house checklist – how to plan what furniture you need
This is it, this is me breaking the radio silence. Hiatus over. Sort of. Life has changed over the past few months, as it has a habit of doing. I am still enjoying everyday good living, even more so than before. My efforts haven’t been towards posting on this blog… Until now (or the near… Read More Work in Progress
Would someone like to teach me to knit? Please? I spend too much time sat being unproductive and feel like that’s only going to keep being the case for the foreseeable future. I’d like to do something productive so, teach me to knit please?
I was lucky recently to locate a tree full of greengages, its limbs sprawling and hanging low, low enough for me to pick the golden fruit. I have been hunting for wild plums all summer, hopeful for a damson in a roadside hedgerow, or an old round plum at a field edge. However, it was… Read More Trying my hand at canning fruit – greengages
Particularly fantastic tomatoes!
Ryan Sandford-Blackburn 