We have seen an abundance of berries and nuts in the hedgerows around us this autumn. The blackberries have been...
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. There are few greater senses of anticipation than the thought of courgettes freshly picked, grated and served with lemon, feta and mint, and we have beautiful spheres of round courgette...
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...
