Home Grown Food
Cress (Lepidium sativum) is probably the first edible crop that most of us ever grow. A popular primary school activity -usually involving decorating an eggshell and growing the microgreens to look like hair, is probably everyone’s first introduction to growing your own food. For this reason, I believe that cress is often overlooked as a …
One of the most common of plants in the UK the Stinging Nettle is hard to confuse with anything else. Often seen as a weed pest in the garden we are taught to recognise (and avoid) them from a young age due to their vicious sting. However, we should also be taught about how good …
Back in March 2019 we decided to start a food forest project in the front garden. It was a pretty easy decision to make. The front garden was mostly lawn, and we never really did much with it other than mow it, on what seemed liked too regular as basis. We’d sat down and planned …
