Don't those loaves look divine? Can you not just smell that wonderful fresh bread aroma floating out of your screen? And they taste just as good as they look – because these are Andrew Whitley's sourdough loaves. No, not the supposed sourdough loaves that you can buy in every …
Over a quarter of US honey bees died over last winter…
There maybe a lot of Brussels bashing going on at the moment but they do do some things right – such as the precautionary restriction in 2013 of the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on crops which are attractive to bees and other pollinators. Their action was based on research …
Alas, still no allergen-free gardens…
I am, yet again, totally baffled........ There are around 12 million hay fever sufferers in the UK, approximately 20% of the population. And there are around 25 million amateur gardeners, approximately 40% of the population – and that is not counting those who garden for a …
Butchery…
I have just come back from the most splendid morning propped in a corner watching five butchers exercise their skills. And no, I was not judging some 'freefrom' butchery competition. In fact I was being interviewed about Victorian butchers for the BBC 1 Heir Hunters programme – a …
Deep sea litter…
Following links from Natural News, I have just read two excellent but scary reports in the Guardian by Jessica Aldred (December 2013 and April 2014) on the horrendous mess we are making of the ocean floor by dumping our 6.4 million (yes, 6.4 million) tonnes of rubbish in the sea …