The summer season is a busy one, particularly when you’re establishing a new garden. We’ve been working hard to fill...
As winter turns to spring, we have some changes going on as we rebrand from Hexhamshire Organics to Garden Freyja...
While we’ve been making the most of the autumn sunshine and we’re still picking some fab winter produce – the arrival of darker nights gives me a chance to write and introduce myself. Ten years ago my husband Bob and I completely changed our careers – in catering and technology...
It’s been a varied summer weather-wise with more rain than expected, and at times I’ve felt like I’m growing plants...
After what proved a long, draining and very wet winter, I don’t think I have ever been so relieved to...
I’m writing just as we tip into March, and it feels like spring is around the corner – Vallum is slowly going greener and the Pine team have been hard at work in the kitchen garden. Foraging guru Jonny and I picked wild garlic, new ground elder and nettle shoots...
We have seen an abundance of berries and nuts in the hedgerows around us this autumn. The blackberries have been...
It’s been a funny old summer… hot then wet, then I lit the fire one day because it was so...
It’s the most exciting time of the year when all the preparation and coaxing of seedlings is coming to fruition. There are few greater senses of anticipation than the thought of courgettes freshly picked, grated and served with lemon, feta and mint, and we have beautiful spheres of round courgette...
We’ve been chatting beetroot today. All things from baby beets boiled in the pan to bigger ones roasted in the...
The passage of autumn into winter always feels to me like a slowing-down period; a time for reflection. Everything is...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce to the farm’s weddings and events, and Restaurant Pine. Vallum, Military Road, Newcastle, NE18 0LL, tel 01434 672 652, www.vallumfarm.co.uk Chard, chard, chard. Butterflies, butterflies, moths. Grrrr… We like (or we...
