by Richard | Mar 30, 2022 | Farm Updates
Regular viewers will know I’ve been planning a natural swimming pool build for a couple of years now – and now’s the time to get on with it! For that purpose, we’re digging a deep hole in my front lawn, and we also need to do some digging in...
by Richard | Mar 28, 2022 | Farm Updates
We’ve seeded the cabbages now and prepped the beds in the big polytunnel for tomatoes, cucumbers, chilis, melons and watermelons. First time growing melons here – always nice to shake things up. What are you growing in your tunnel(s) this year? Join the...
by Richard | Mar 11, 2022 | Farm Updates, No-Dig Market Gardening
Big seeding day! I have six old varieties of grains that I want to grow out in the market garden beds. I’m going to test growing them at conventional spacing and in spacing inspired by the System of Rice Intensification method. Have you tried growing ancient grains?...
by Richard | Mar 9, 2022 | Farm Updates
I’m starting to sow the vegetables for the year. We’ve got 1000m2 under cultivation, and even though the beds are still snow capped and frozen, the lean-to greenhouse now has a nice temperature and it’s time to get the tomatoes in. What have you sown thus far? Join...
by Richard | Feb 28, 2022 | Interviews & Talks
Today I catch up with Cathal Mooney who you may well remember from Heather Hill Farm over in Ireland. He’s building an epic new ‘state-of-the-art’ egg-mobile as well as a multi-species processing unit on the farm. We’re running a training at his farm...
