Pheasant Place

This organic farm in the Black Mountains, in Wales, is described as "in all probability the most productive piece of agricultural lan...

Home-cured meat. This is a Guardian article giving instructions on how to cure and make air-dried beef.

I sat on the clematis bench in the veg garden the other day, sunbathing, reading and smoking. My eyes were taken by something moving under t...

  Eco-homes: Living the good life video A nice video from the Guardian, about people living sustainably in Wales in homes they built them...

These are some papers made in previous years. These papers include bits of moss. I thought about sending some sheets of this to Kate Moss....

This is a very enjoyable, deeply satisfying, thing to do. The satisfaction in it arises when you lift the mould out of the chaotic maelstr...

Two squirrels in the head disorder As the physician states, valerian relaxes without the side effects of most drugs used to produce the sa...

In 1957, Hoyle and Fowler showed that all the elements from which our world is made – from carbon atoms to uranium atoms – had been cooked i...

We had two packets of turnip seed in our collection, so we put them in to use them up. Unfortunately, they're not very popular here: w...

Damson, apple, grape and fennel fruit leather. This year, instead of simply drying the damsons as we did last year (see here ), we made fr...

We had a good crop of garlic this year, from which we made garlic in goose fat. This is simply peeled garlic cloves simmered until soft in ...