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...
The passage of autumn into winter always feels to me like a slowing-down period; a time for reflection. Everything is slowing down, it seems, not just me, and I find it harder to tap into my energy because my instinct is to be still. Which is fine, only I also...
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...
Every year I feel myself being pulled out of the doldrums of The Long Brown Northumbrian Winter by the first signs of spring. Birds wake me up, green buds abound and the lawn goes from static to crazy; oh, for the smell of the first-cut grass. Spring has got to...
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...
Some years ago, I saw a crowd funder for a new type of beehive developed by farmers in Australia. Their story went viral, they raised way more than they needed, and I became the owner of one of their founding boxes. The innovative thing about this beehive is that you simply...
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,...
When the wind and the rain are playing havoc with EVERYTHING it’s very hard to have any enthusiasm for ANYTHING! Just getting in and out of the car is a challenge, and my brain seems to be left behind most of the time. I have just left my phone...
