food

From life’s amazing transformations to hormonal rollercoasters, nature offers phytoestrogens to help women find balance during perimenopause. Found in plant-based compounds they mimic the effects of estrogen. When our bodies …

We had a good pumpkin haul last year and we’ve been steadily getting through them. The pumpkins are regularly used in curries, it’s a staple topping for our Saturday homemade …

Our courgettes in the vegetable garden are currently producing vast quantities of fruit, so we’re going to share our easy-to-make, exceptionally tasty courgette soup recipe with you.

All the hard work we’ve put into our vegetable garden is starting to bear fruit, quite literally. Tonight’s dinner was picked minutes before we ate; yellow courgette, Isobel onions, Thermidrome …

While we’ve done our utmost to stop using plastic bags for storage in the kitchen, it’s been difficult to get rid of them completely; until now. Kirsten recently purchased a …

Up until very recently stinging nettles in our garden were extremely annoying and a nuisance. That’s all changed as I’ve started to read up on composting and I’ve compiled a …

For years I was put off kale by peoples’ general aversion to it. I eventually tried it, and it’s a definite winner because it tastes great, is highly nutritious, versatile …

With the social distancing measures associated with Covid-19, our local garden centre has been running a 50% sale on its fruit trees to get rid of mounting stock. We took …

As we move ahead into unknown times, tonight we had kale and butternut squash curry.

Another thing to tick off our sustainability to-do list: we’ve started planting phase one of our orchard.