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Ever wondered where economics and permaculture connect....? Everywhere.

5/29/2016

This man speaks maaaaah language....to the syllable. :) "The point of agriculture? It's to feed and clothe people...and to build soil. " Ohhhh yes!!!!

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The Good Stuff Outside

5/5/2016

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Snippet from a local paper: "At least four areas of the country, including Hammersmith and Bromley by Bow in London and Rotherham, South Yorkshire, are running GP-referred gardening schemes aiming to help, among others, elderly patients who feel isolated, long-term carers and those with mental health problems. Patients, who are selected because they don't have their own green space, visit a chairty-funded garden once ot twice a week for three or four months to help them stay active and feel connected so something as they tend the plants. GPS and researchers involved in the scheme say the benefits can be huge. "In Rotherham, £600,000 was given to 30 charities offering community initiatives, including gardening", says Professor Jeremy Levy, clinical lead at Health Education North West London NHS Trust, who studies the schemes. "About 1,300 patients attended and the resulting fall in usage of NHS was 20 per cent fwer A&E visits, 20 per cent fewer GP appointments and 21 per cent fewer outpatient appointments, Within the first year, the estimated saving to the NHS was £552,000".

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Me and Boadicea

2/13/2016

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Me and this piece of kit were on barely lifting terms a month ago. Now We Are One and we take no prisoners. Amazing what you learn to do what you just have to. This is the Splitter that Splits The Wood That Fuels the Burner That Heats the Water for the HandMadeHouse That We Built...

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Dose of Nature - Come What May

2/13/2016

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Come rain, sleet, howling wind or ankle deep mud - the Dose of Nature Wild Tuesday Team gather in the workshop weekly, and sustained with hot chocolate, home made soup and bread, get proper crafty...and have a blast. We discuss the world, and sort it out, yay verily. Have a look at more of our splendid artifulness right here:

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Off grid living in the wilds of Imogen

2/13/2016

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There is little, I have discovered, to beat the sense of autonomy and satisfaction of managing your energy and resource requirements to match the available resources. So winter brings much water, and less light...so managing our solar power is crucial. And it can be done. Careful use of lighting, making the new habit of switching things off, making the most of the sunshine to charge the water pump battery, the pig fence battery (to boost its own wee solar panel) and do the washing (with water heated on the stove, always lit of an evening so splendidly multitasking), all make it possible. Judicious use of our wee generator to give the main battery store a boost keeps things working. And still using on average 1.1kwh/day. Brilliant. Literally.

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Treasure trove...

8/12/2015

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Remember those fab tyres full of tulips and crocuses? Now it's the turn of sunflowers and poppies....like a slap across the face with a your own private sunshine...and the bees ae going ballistic. The whole place is humming...the garden is singing to itself. :)

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And We Have Lift Off...

8/12/2015

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And then everything starts a go a bit doolally. In the very, very best possible way. Moon daisies, shasta daises, foxgloves, red campion, sunflowers, nasturtiums, poppies and a million Everything Else...too glorious for words. So best let the pictures do the talking...

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A Dose of the Good Stuff..

8/12/2015

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And whilst all the green stuff is growing...we went out into the woods with the Dose of Nature group from the local surgery, run by the splendid Mark, and we had a ball. :) We whittled, talked, built dens, crafted dream catchers, picture frames and wooden snakes, created pet memorials, carved mallets, and generally chilled out. Brilliant. What a fab team!

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Summer lovin'...

8/12/2015

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And then spring arrived. Sunshine and some rain (although nowhere hear enough ...the grumble of climate change always in the background, changing the very way we can grow things...) and seedlings all over the place - in tubs, pots, trays and egg boxes...sprutting taking place in every single corner. Gorgeous. And the greenhouses start to fill...

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Preloved, and lovely.

4/28/2015

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Still saving up for our polytunnel. So in the meantime have been gifted two unwanted greenhouses we've refurbed; second one going in where the pigs have helped us clear the bramble. Too exciting for words. I talk to "everyone" whenever I go in first thing in the morning to check and water, or last thing at night before bed with torch and bucket for the Slug Crawl. I am my own Natural Pest Management System. Also applies to children.

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Ever wondered where economics and permaculture connect....? Everywhere.

The Good Stuff Outside

Me and Boadicea

Dose of Nature - Come What May

Off grid living in the wilds of Imogen

Treasure trove...

And We Have Lift Off...

A Dose of the Good Stuff..

Summer lovin'...

Preloved, and lovely.

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