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Waste Not
Fergus with a Silver Grey Dorking Chook. One of the things I’m keen to do in my garden is close the loop. There’s a classic line John Seymour’s New Complete Book of Self Sufficiency, where he says...
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In Praise of the Backyard Flock
One of my favourite jobs here on our little smallholding is the seasonal cleaning out of the chook pen. It actually feels really satisfying to muck out the shed, throw down some lime, replace all the...
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Hard Won Experience
Some days I feel like a total beginner. I’ve been growing food, composting, keeping chickens for 13 years, but every now and then a problem will come along that has me completely, and utterly,...
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Local Harvest Challenge
At last year's Hampton Food and Arts Festival with a basket of local produce. The word “locavore” was coined in 2005, voted “Word of the Year” by the Oxford American Dictionary in 2007, and now is in...
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The Wonders of Comfrey
Very few plants in the home garden can justifiably be described as “wonder plants”. Quinoa, aloe vera, goji berry, and hemp are sometimes bestowed with the title, but in my view, the botanical wonder...
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