Pumpkin Gnocchi

I am loving the pumpkins this year, and have been the lucky recipient of a fair few from Vicky's abundant vegetable patch. Buckets of delicious soup - remember the celery and lentils to bring some much-needed umami to the otherwise rather cloying result - but I wanted to try something slightly different. We made pumpkin …

Free-range Potatoes

For a long time I have planned to have a brilliant compost heap, full of bedding from the hens to add valuable nitrogen and carbon; chopped garden waste; grass clippings from the areas the guinea pigs can't graze; casts from the wormery, providing a home for thousands of woodlice, spiders, and maybe even a slowworm …

Land Sharing

After almost 15 years at Shawpits, I am moving out to a smaller property about 5 miles away. I have loved living here but it is time for a new era now that my children have all flown the nest, and I am moving away from running courses and the practical involvement of a beekeeping …

How are they doing?

I wanted to see how the free-range bees at Selmeston were getting on after their relocation. I was concerned that they might be too traumatised by the interference and subsequent robbing but I need not have worried: I have a full update on my Patreon but they seem to be using the back and sides …