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Growing From Leftover Kitchen Vegetables

Growing Veg Scraps on The Window Cill. My Kitchen window, washing-up friends often consist of spring onion stubs, cabbage bases, and lettuce stumps.  I keep them where I can see...

Growing From Leftover Kitchen Vegetables

Growing Veg Scraps on The Window Cill. My Kitchen window, washing-up friends often consist of spring onion stubs, cabbage bases, and lettuce stumps.  I keep them where I can see...

plucking a pheasant

Plucking A Pheasant

  How Top Pluck A Pheasant For Non-Pluckers A beginners guide to preparing a pheasant. Look away if you are veggie/vegan please . A surprise gift in exchange for some...

Plucking A Pheasant

  How Top Pluck A Pheasant For Non-Pluckers A beginners guide to preparing a pheasant. Look away if you are veggie/vegan please . A surprise gift in exchange for some...

how to make a fire pit using old bricks

How to Make a Fire Pit Using Old Bricks

  Every two years I build us a new fire circle.  I've done this for two decades now. Whenever I come across an old paving stone and a pile of...

How to Make a Fire Pit Using Old Bricks

  Every two years I build us a new fire circle.  I've done this for two decades now. Whenever I come across an old paving stone and a pile of...

What is self-reliance?

Woman As Her Own Star - What is Self-Reliance a...

  What is Self-Reliance? The Oxford Dictionary says it is: “Reliance on one’s own powers and resources rather than those of others”. This can be in the realms of housing,...

Woman As Her Own Star - What is Self-Reliance a...

  What is Self-Reliance? The Oxford Dictionary says it is: “Reliance on one’s own powers and resources rather than those of others”. This can be in the realms of housing,...

Wild Harvest Does BBC Country File Live

Wild Harvest Does BBC Country File Live

We are delighted to have been asked to run two workshops a day, at BBC Countryfiles Christmas in the Park! You will see Di twice a day on stage, and...

Wild Harvest Does BBC Country File Live

We are delighted to have been asked to run two workshops a day, at BBC Countryfiles Christmas in the Park! You will see Di twice a day on stage, and...

using human hair to light a fire

Using Human Hair to Light a Fire

  I have brushed my in front of the fire for over twenty years now, and each time I clean the hairbrush I throw the hair into the flames. Other...

Using Human Hair to Light a Fire

  I have brushed my in front of the fire for over twenty years now, and each time I clean the hairbrush I throw the hair into the flames. Other...