We picked the last of our pears today and that is the end of a bumper crop this year! We’ve been eating them, juicing, making cider, giving them away and this weekend I had Amy & Zoe help me dry them too. Here’s a photo of our last lot of apples and pears and our…
That old saying – we are what we eat – keeps coming up again and again. This time I spotted an article (Sunday Times, 11 Sep 11 – Eat yourself happy with mood food) reporting on how micronutrients such as vitamins and trace minerals in the foods we eat can quickly affect our concentration, memory…
We did it! It’s been an exciting couple of months with the launch of The Retreat at Split Farthing Hall. We’ve held our first few retreats including Claire guiding an ‘Adventure for the Soul’ program and encouraging women to ‘Evoke Your Senses’ on another weekend. Plus we just had a fabulous double page article published…
As you should know by now, the provenance of my food is what is so important to me. And that is why I’ve always been an advocate of the Irish Kerrygold spreadable butter – it was the only spreadable butter made from just 100% grass fed milk. It could only be made from the milk…
It’s that time year again – already. All the plums are ripe at the same time again, including the Damsons! Plus we just collected bags & bags of pears too… Here’s Amy & Zoe helping collect some fruit from our orchard. They were also great at helping de-stone all the plums in preparation for jam making,…
The other thing we’ve been working on over the past month is our walled garden. We’ve always lusted after one and now we have created one… And we’re proud of it – even if it is only a miniature one. I think it’s the walled garden with the best view. An added bonus is that…
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