Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s a peek at what I’m planning for the future: I’m thinking of producing a short book: working title – SUSTAINABLE FOOD FUTURE FROM THE GROUND UP. It’s based on my previous blog posts about this subject. I’d like to know if you, my blog readers, would be interested in this book (below)? Sustainable Future […]
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Refootable Socks and a Mending Culture revival
Reading Time: 6 minutes I’ve just finished knitting a pair of refootable socks. The prompt to do this came from thinking through ways of knitting no nylon Socks. I wrote about sock knitting tricks that help you to avoid knitting with wool that contains nylon, yet make a reasonably durable sock. Most sock knitting yarns now contain nylon (plastic!) […]
Artisan Food: Is It Better For Us and the Planet?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just to the south of where I live is a landscape that has terroir: multiple distinct landscapes producing vegetables, cider and beer. It’s a great place to source artisan food. This is a continuation of a journey around the English west midlands where I live. I started in the hills in the north, moved round […]
Frugal and Zero Waste House Renovation
Reading Time: 7 minutes Are you looking round your house and feel it needs a complete overhaul? Or, have you found your ‘forever’ house, but, it needs a lot of work? You may think it’ll break the bank, but frugal and zero waste house renovation tactics might be the answer. Not only that, but these tend to be ways […]
Greetings Cards from Repurposed Materials: Five ways
Reading Time: 5 minutes Making your own greetings cards can be fun, creative, and a way to send cards that strike a cord with your friend or family’s likes and tastes. Here are five ways to make greetings cards from repurposed materials. Your card making can be sustainable and will cost very few pence/cents. These are not exactly high […]
Cow and Corn: Ancient Food and Climate Change
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cow and corn: a vital food producing, soil-saving combination over large parts of the region where I live. And indeed, all over the world. We’ve come down from the hill to plains. This is a story of ancient food that lives under the ground; of poop and soil. What can we learn from Saxon peasants, […]