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....
We’ve been chatting beetroot today. All things from baby beets boiled in the pan to bigger ones roasted in the oven. We were at The Black Swan at Oldstead for my birthday in January – a hard time of year for chefs produce-wise – and they did a whole course...
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...
I think that when the sun is out and the countryside is in full green mode, there’s no place more beautiful than Northumberland; a place that truly nourishes my soul. Yesterday was one of those days. Driving along the back roads because of a diversion on the Military Road, the...
Every year I feel myself being pulled out of the doldrums of The Long Brown Northumbrian Winter by the first...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
It’s that time of year; very wet, damp, cold, muddy, dark and everything else unpleasant. The plants in the pots my friend at Tom and Jo’s in Wylam made for me continue to bloom and grow against the odds. I’m not quite sure how, and as far as gardening is...
Some years ago, I saw a crowd funder for a new type of beehive developed by farmers in Australia. Their...
I feel like Vallum has gone through a sort of rejuvenation during lockdown. It’s as if the world stopped and...
It’s been a funny old day, as Arkwright might have said; only it’s been a funny old several days. Months, actually. Mark has been growing up a storm in the polytunnel, whilst we’ve been enduring enforced closure with lockdown and then the restricted number of guests allowed at weddings. It’s...
