Permaculture

The word 'permaculture' comes originally from 'permanent agriculture' and 'permanent culture' - it is about living lightly on the planet, and making sure that we can sustain human activities for many generations to come, in harmony with nature.

Compost Bins Lids - Part 2

Managed to get more work done on the compost bins this weekend. It's getting important to get as much done as possible now. Come October we

Gardening
Jamie Whitehorn

Compost bin lids

This week we're building lids for the compost bins to keep the weather off the compost - but ironically inclement weather stopped us from co

Gardening
Jamie Whitehorn

Putting fronts on the composting bins

Spent a very pleasant Sunday afternoon working on the composting bins. It's nice to be able to make at least some progress on them each week

Gardening
Jamie Whitehorn

Plans for our composting bins

Now the raised beds are finished ... or at least ready for soil ... and we've tidied up the bottom of the garden, it's time to think about t

Gardening
Jamie Whitehorn

Raised Beds - First Thoughts

We want to use raised beds in our new garden. I wouldn't go into the advantages here - if your curious you can Google it. We are looking to

Gardening
Jamie Whitehorn

A New Beginning - Garden 2.0

Like a lot of people we have a rather neglected rear garden. About a decade ago it looked like this - Then we got horses and dogs and our fr

Gardening
Jamie Whitehorn

Switching to Organic Veg

What is it really like to switch from supermarket veg to home delivered, organic veg - we tried it a few months ago, and this is the result.

Life Style
Jamie Whitehorn