The Primal Chicken
After reading several books by Joel Salatin (see below) and others we’ve decided to ditch our processed chicken pellets and mix up our own feed. We had started a while ago by supplementing a portion of the chicken pellets with wheat, however, further research has shown that wheat alone won’t give our lovely chickens all […]
So way back during the cold dark month’s of Winter we decided to convert our unproductive front garden into a productive one seeing as we want to make every space count! We decided that it would be the perfect place to start our medicinal herb garden. Over the previous few months I had built up […]
Here’s the garden update for April 2015. Another super busy month and still figuring out the ins and outs of working with the polytunnel. Can’t believe how hot it has been getting in here – we’ve already had temps in the high 30s and the plants are sweltering. In fact we lost most of our […]
Our chicken runs have taken a beating over the winter and haven’t recovered at all. We’ve tried planting with normal lawn seed and it just hasn’t worked. This spring we’ve decided to try a specialist grass seed mix to see if this will produce a hardier grass that will better take the foracious appetites of […]
Mike came across this fantastic Kickstarter Project that we’re really excited about. Wanting to manage our own smallholding oneday, we lap up any information that we find on the internet to help us on our way. Justin Rhodes (from Abundant Permaculture), whose Kickstarter Project it is, sums it up nicely in this intro video, when […]
So excited! The polytunnel is complete and ready to be fitted with its raised beds, potting table and plants! The polytunnel itself from First Polytunnels was a Christmas present to ourselves. It arrived very promptly and was packaged flat-pack style but with everything labelled so that we could very easily identify the parts required for […]
This recipe has been a revolution. Being able to serve up the kids one of their most favourite side dishes especially when first went paleo was extremely satisfying. We have modified it to fit with the ingredients we normally have in the house and we still allow a little full fat dairy. I have put […]
Well, this is so yum that we could finish the loaf in one session! But we try and hold out for two! It’s great fresh from the oven with butter, cold with butter or even better, toasted with butter. Notice the theme here. We are definitely one buttery household. This recipe came from a our […]
This recipe is also requested often and again it has a beautiful, moist texture and a rich fruity taste. The original recipe is from the Elana’s Pantry – www.elanaspantry.com. The recipe I have noted below has the changes that I make to her recipe to best suit our tastes for fruit cake. Plus I only […]
Well this one is just lovely. Super lovely. Friends that pop over for coffee never know that there isn’t any wheat flour in this luscious cake, nor is there much sugar. Just the sweet taste of banana. Again, we use some dairy but you could experiment with coconut milk and fat if you wanted to […]