Category: Kitchen Garden

A quick tour round a permaculture allotment

Mike Feingold is something of a permaculture legend and guru. His own allotment demonstrates various permaculture principals and practices each given the Feingold twist. EarthAbbey’s Grow Zones project participants paid him a visit on a sunny April morning.

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Anyone for G&T Marmalade?

Don’t throw out your squeezed and or zested oranges and lemons (the worms in the compost don’t like them anyway!) - save them up in the freezer to make this wonderful marmalade…

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Michelle Obama to grow veg on the White House lawn

This is a story to put a smile on the face of anyone convinced that growing and eating our own organic produce should, perhaps, take precedence, even, over the front lawn. Michelle Obama isn’t thinking about this. She’s not weighing the pros and cons of a petition urging her to do this. She’s not allowing some local grower to plant some potatoes in a corner. She’s doing it herself with the help of some local school children.

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The legacy of Darwin 3 - the earthworm and a lesson in humility

Darwin’s work was seized on by those people of his day who thought that science and reason could, and should, explain everything about life. But Darwin himself never thought that way. For him the world was a wonder.

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The legacy of Darwin 2: Don’t forget brother Gregor

About the same time that Darwin was publishing The Origin of Species, a little known monk was beavering away in a monastic garden growing peas. Gregor Mendel gave us ‘the gene’and illustrated the historical truth that science has more often proceeded from faith, than from opposition to it.

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Perennial Vegetables

No time time for gardening? Dissapointed by your crops going to the slugs? Do you go away for long stretches so you can’t maintain a vegetable bed? Then perennial vegetables maybe the thing for you.

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Meals for Body and Soul

We have been wondering how to make a beginning with the formation of local groups. We asked ourselves, ‘What would people really like to do’? How can people meet one another in a way that feels authentic and not just another ‘meeting’ or ‘programme’? How can we introduce areas of interest without falling into the ‘talk’, which leaves everyone but the speaker passive? And we came up with this.

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New Uses for Old Tights!

You’ve probably come across the idea of recycling tights as stuffing for cushions or soft toys but here are some more ideas…

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The beginnings of permaculture

Permaculture is a scientific and philosophical approach to living in tune with the earth. It was invented by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in Tasmania more than thirty years ago and is now fast becoming a worldwide phenomenon. The spirituality of Earth Abbey appears to fit extraordinarily well with this movement.

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Self Sufficientish City Foraging

Andy and Dave Hamilton have started hosting guided city foraging in Bristol. They can show you masses of plants on your doorstep you can eat but you might not have noticed before!

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