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...
I think that when the sun is out and the countryside is in full green mode, there’s no place more...
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 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 that time of year; very wet, damp, cold, muddy, dark and everything else unpleasant. The plants in the pots...
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 we had a chance to make the big decisions we never have time to fully consider. And so it must have been for Callum Byerly and Siân Buchanan, of the...
It’s been a funny old day, as Arkwright might have said; only it’s been a funny old several days. Months,...
When the wind and the rain are playing havoc with EVERYTHING it’s very hard to have any enthusiasm for ANYTHING!...
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 tea room, restaurant tipi, and wedding and events venue. Vallum, Military Road, Newcastle, NE18 0LL, tel 01434 672 652, www.vallumfarm.co.uk The early part of the year is...
