Category: Kitchen Garden

Bruce French from Tasmania points us to a vast range of edible food resources

We are grateful to Bruce French for an article about edible foods and his own journey. Did you know that there are about 20,000 edible plant species in the world? They represent a vast and largely untapped source of nourishment. Knowledge about these foods could help people in some of the poorest countries of the world.

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The Future of Our Food

Hilary Benn has announced plans to assess and change the way we produce our food. What does that mean for us?

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Sharing the planet with slugs

The slug could be seen as one of nature’s great recyclers, taking up and digesting decaying vegetable matter, but when they eat our seedlings, well that is a different matter.

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Guerilla Gardening or just caring for the lane?

It has been ten years like it. A mass of brambles, ivy and wild rose, growing from the land bordering the lane and over our wooden fence. Our fence had broken and, in repairing it, I discovered a beautiful old stone wall. It was then I decided something had to be done. The only problem was, it was not our land.

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A short film about Grow Zones

There have been a few posts over the spring about Grow Zones, EarthAbbey’s local food through permaculture project. Here is a little movie that tells the story. Grow Zones will be back in the autumn and next spring.

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more grow zones

This morning Bruce, Sara, Chris, Bobbie, Elaine and Alan from Earth Abbey’s brilliant grow zone project came round to help transform our garden. Our garden is tiny – just 5x5m. Despite its size, we wanted to grow some of our own food, as well as continuing to enjoy the space for eating, drinking and relaxing and to maintain some of the flowers and shrubs. So, something of a challenge then! Amazingly, in less than 3 hours, the garden was transformed.

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like groundforce - but much more fun

Our garden got the grow zone treatment today! Grow zones are an initiative of Earth Abbey to encourage some Bristol residents to start growing food in our back gardens and allotments. Some of the gardens we have visited are quite substantial; ours is tiny – about 5m square and I would never have thought we could grow veg in it until I started to hear about permaculture.

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We’ve been Grow Zoned!

Ground Force for sustainable living.

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The Joy of Foraging No. 4: Dandelion Leaves

Raw = YUK!?
Cooked = YUM…read on for some good recipe ideas using dandelion leaves.

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The disappearance of the honeybee – a warning sign?

Human beings are dependent on an extraordinarily complex system of life on this planet. A recent decline in honeybee populations is making us aware of just how much this insect does for us.

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