This Isn’t a Food System. It’s Supermarket Hegemony.
Alfred Henry Lewis once warned that we are only nine meals from anarchy.
That’s not a historical truth, it’s a warning.
Build A Raise Garden Bed For Your Veg
A couple of bank holidays incoming, so if you want to get an immediate start on your garden, here’s a simple plan for putting a raised bed together. Raised beds are one of the easiest ways to start growing vegetables. They improve drainage, warm faster in spring, and allow you to start with clean, fertile […]
The Math That Forced Me To Change My Diet
“Our small holding, as it is currently farmed feeds a village — But Farmed for Livestock, It Would Struggle to Feed Just Me.”
Some tips on sowing vegetables and flowers for Summer Abundance
With the weather brightening up again, many new to garden will start rushing out and buying seeds now and many of those seeds will perish before they even germinate and will never get to express themselves as healthy vegetables or beautiful blooms.
Buying Whole Milk In North CO Dublin
Right. If we’re going to talk about milk, let’s talk about milk properly — not the white water we’ve been trained to think of as “healthy.”
Loving Winter Veg
This is food for proper hunger. Food that sustains, comforts, and rewards attention. And in the right hands, winter veg becomes anything but dull.
January: When Doing Nothing Is the Hardest Job in the Garden
Even with heat mats, cosy kitchens and propagators, seedlings sown in January are fighting a losing battle. The daylight hours are short, the sun is weak, and plants grown without enough light stretch desperately towards it. You end up with tall, pale, leggy seedlings that will never thrive.
Long Before Christmas, There Was Feasting & Gathering
Across Ireland and much of Europe, pre-Christian societies marked the final stretch of the year not with quiet reverence but with noise and excess: food and drink, storytelling and song, generosity and confrontation.
Finding reassurance on the winter Solstice
The question wasn’t “Will spring be good?”
It was “Will it come at all?”
That may sound foolish now. But when elders had lived through prolonged winters, late springs, failed sowings—when cows didn’t cycle and ewes didn’t lamb—the fear was real.
Mid Winter & A Nod To The Green Man
He’s older than Christianity, yet he turns up in sanctified places, tucked into corners and arches, as if the pillars of the church tried — and failed — to erase him, as though the strength of older beliefs persist in this one ungodly god.