Guides and instructables
You might remember our previous shout out for The Orchard Project. After joining one of their harvesting trips at the beginning of autumn, it seemed only fitting to return in winter to learn a little bit about the care involved in maintaining a healthy orchard. This time, we attended a workshop to learn the some … More Pruning with The Orchard Project
The name ‘fire cider’ is accredited to Rosemary Gladstar, a well-known herbalist in the 1980’s that taught her students and the community this amazing tonic to educate and help people to realize that raw foods and herbs are the foundations for a healthy lifestyle. We make fire cider every year to have on hand for … More Fire Cider
We’ve been compiling a list of the countries in Europe with what information we could find about the legalities of wild camping in each. We’ve attempted to research each one but if you spot any errors please do let us know so we can update this resource. Also, just because wild camping is “illegal” in … More Wild Camping Laws in Europe
Fruit wines are surprisingly simple to make. We’ve made blackberry and elderberry so far, and hopefully will be trying some new ones soon. The basic steps are similar for most fruit wines, so rather than just giving you one recipe, we thought we’d give you the basic general steps, and then provide a table with … More Home Made Fruit Wines
Our little nectarine tree had gorgeous blossoms this spring. Unfortunately, they were accompanied by some rather unsighlty twisted and red blotched leaves. We did some research and concluded that it has fallen prey to peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease of peaches, almonds, nectarines and occasionally apricots, which causes distorted leaves, … More Natural Leaf Curl Control
We recently discovered that Epson salt has a plethora of uses in the garden, so we thought we’d share some of them with you. Epsom salt is named after a bitter saline spring in Epsom (Surrey, England). It’s not actually salt but a naturally occurring pure mineral compound of magnesium and sulfate. The crystals break down … More Epson Salt for the Garden
This year we’ve been growing most things from seed, and we came across a method that increases the success rate (by up to 70% we’ve read). It’s called pre-sprouting or pre-germination. Pre-sprouting reduces the amount of time waiting and minimizes the chance of losing seedlings early on. Another pro is that you don’t waste time and space … More Seed (pre)sprouting
