Winter is definitely here and the first frosts are freezing up the poly tunnels. Here at Vallum, we’re preparing for...
Vicky Moffitt of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
Oh my goodness…this weather! I’m sure the cherries aren’t usually so early, yet we have them dropping from the tree. The challenge is always to get them before the birds and wasps so we can preserve them in delicious jams and coulis. It’s all go in the Kitchen Garden, where...
After a beautiful February when I dusted the moths off my denim (almost) mini-skirt, today, at the back end of...
Whisper it – spring is here (maybe). The birds are chirping away like there’s no tomorrow and our customers have...
As I write this on a mild January day, I’m beginning to wonder where winter is this year. Maybe it will beat me to the publication of this column, but it’s been so mild up to now, we don’t really know ourselves here. Certainly, we are making the most of...
What a summer we had! The heatwave meant the crops were in remarkably early, allowing the farmers a more sociable...
The kitchen garden is in its element at the moment with beans, kale, chard, beetroot, carrots, lettuce, courgettes, cucumber, tomatoes,...
The birds are doing their best to eat the sprouting kaibroc before us so we are having to take drastic measures in the shape of the return of Harry the hawk. He is handsome, tame and is actually a kite which we tie to a long pole so that it...
This month, we are mostly obsessing about our beautiful new Sussex hens, courtesy of James Baty at North Acomb Farm,...
Oh my goodness, we are hanging out for springtime… I walked through Corbridge the other day and the crocuses were...
The whole garden has been cloaked in sparkle dust today. We had to stop picking the kale mid-December as it had stopped regenerating with the lower temperatures and it doesn’t look like picking up anytime soon. The sprouting broccoli started a little early (it should have waited until January) and...
