Every year I feel myself being pulled out of the doldrums of The Long Brown Northumbrian Winter by the first...
In the garden, with Vicky Moffitt Our usual columnist, Caroline Beck, is up to her eyes in the garden today,...
Wet spell has not stopped the gardening Despite the mixed weather (we’re squelching around in our wellies with the sun beating down on us as I write) everything is go at the Kitchen Garden. The demand for year-round and early season plants is high and we’re close to cropping the...
Rabbits. The very word makes this live-and-let-live gardener twitch with rage. It’s not that I hate them, but I hate...
This month, we are mostly obsessing about our beautiful new Sussex hens, courtesy of James Baty at North Acomb Farm,...
With Vallum’s Vicky Moffitt The purple-sprouting broccoli at Vallum is insane. It’s like being in a virtual reality world down here in the garden, and it’s been a bumper crop this year. The colours are amazing and we can’t do enough with it. We’ve sautéed it with chilli, put it in...
Between planting, picking and serving all the produce from our kitchen garden, our newest team member, Richard Jack, head chef...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
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 Well, it’s a fristy frosty March morning today and the sun...
It’s so cold we barely want to go out in the garden and pick at the moment. But the bonus...
As I write this on a mild January day, I’m beginning to wonder where winter is this year. Maybe it...
It’s been a funny old summer… hot then wet, then I lit the fire one day because it was so cold in the house. The garden has gone berserk too. It must have been perfect conditions for butterflies – and caterpillars – as I’ve seen quite an array of stripey...
