If you want the healthiest, most flavorful, organic ingredients, grow your own fruits and veggies. I’ve suffered through one too many batches of burned or soggy kale chips over the years. It took me a while to master my baked kale chip recipe, but I’ve learned...
Help our beautiful planet According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the livestock sector is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”. The FAO estimates...
Ideas for small spaces Hedvig Murray is a permaculture teacher who moved home three years ago. Her new growing space was concrete, surrounded by walls on all sides. Not the most promising space in which to grow food. But typical of the sort of challenging space...
If you want to eat in a healthier and more cost-effective way, then follow a sustainable diet of home-grown vegetables and cut down on the meat [caption id="attachment_846" align="alignleft" width="300"] Cut down on meat for a healthier and more eco-friendly student diet. Photograph: Vanessa Rees[/caption] Now that...
Nettle Tea Besides being packed with iron, nettles are a good source of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, vitamin C, pro-vitamin A, chlorophyll, flavonoids, sterol and triterpen. Making Nettle Tea You will need leaves from a few stalks or 25g of dried stinging nettle leaves. Pick young, new nettles if...
Use these quick gardening tips to for a more Eco-friendly natural space 1. Welcome Friendly Bugs That Eat Insect Pests Ladybugs and lacewings eat aphids such as blackfly that destroy crops, so plant bright flowers such as candytuft, sunflowers and marigolds, and create places where these bugs...
How Green is your life? With constant warnings about climate change, global warning and the depletion of natural resources, virtually everyone is now aware that we need to live a greener lifestyle. And while using a jute bag instead of plastic carrier bags when you go shopping...
Saving money, staying healthy, and being environmentally conscious. Three aspects of life that don’t always go hand in hand, but three things that we’re all trying to achieve. A way to help with the weekly shopping bill, help us eat better food and be more...
Getting started with Beekeeping The bees' season starts in spring. So get ready over winter for the arrival of your bees. Read some books on the subject. All the beekeeping associations run them and so do we throughout the autumn and winter. Come to our starter...
Beekeeping in the city FAQ How do you do it? Keeping bees takes knowledge, practice and a bit of luck. Bees get on with things themselves and all we need to do is make sure they are doing it in a healthy and happy way. You need...
