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25 Mar 2011
Living off the land in Wales
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Eco-homes: Living the good life video A nice video from the Guardian, about people living sustainably in Wales in homes they built them...
12 Dec 2010
Two days of frost
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23 Oct 2010
Making paper. Part 2
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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....
22 Oct 2010
Making paper. Part 1
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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...
9 Oct 2010
Valerian
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Two squirrels in the head disorder As the physician states, valerian relaxes without the side effects of most drugs used to produce the sa...
3 Oct 2010
We are stardust
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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...
30 Sept 2010
Waterlily
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Turnips
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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...
29 Sept 2010
Fruit leather
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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...
28 Sept 2010
Garlic in goose fat
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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 ...
19 Sept 2010
Eucalyptus silhouette
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3 Sept 2010
Making an earth oven. Part 3
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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...
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