Pheasant Place

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 ...

Lime plaster finish At last, some sunny weather and a chance to put the lime plaster finish on the oven. As mentioned in the previous s...

We've experimented with growing tobacco over the last three years, and had good success with growing and drying. However, we haven't...

Ladybird on yarrow stalk. (Doesn't look real, does it; but it is.) Here's another. This one's by an elecampane seed head.

Having finished the base, we made a door by glueing, dowelling and screwing together some lengths of thick wood that we had to hand. We used...