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feta cheese
Some friends came round for a day of cheesemaking. Feta! We followed the recipe from Mary Karlin’s excellent Artisan Cheesemaking at Home, reprinted below with kind permission. Little by little I’m...
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dividing comfrey
One excellent way to become more self-reliant about improving soil fertility is to grow comfrey. Comfrey is a perennial herb, related to borage, also known as knit-bone or boneset…also known as a...
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artichoke harvest
Growing artichokes is very much like a long friendship of the sort that, once established, requires little and gives a lot. I longed to grow these gloriously elegant, edible flowers. I did try, in...
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drying nettles
The moment to forage for stinging nettles is early spring, while the tops are young and fresh. Heavy gloves and great respect for the plants are required. A friend on a nearby farm harvested some...
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making traditional rhubarb soup
Kiiseli is a fruit soup from Finland that generations of my family grew up making. This family recipe is drawn from my mother’s best advice, her 1966 Finnish cookbook, a peek through my grandmother’s...
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linen dish cloth
When the countertops and cutting boards, the faucets and the sink are all wiped down with a good clean cloth, I’m quite content. Linen fibre is strongest when wet, so it makes an ideal dish cloth. I...
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toothpaste
Even for people who are really concerned about questionable ingredients found in soaps, cosmetic and household cleaners, making your own toothpaste is an unusual pursuit. Yet as recipes go, toothpaste...
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storage crops
In the daily reckoning of what it takes just to feed ourselves well without creating destruction in packaging, pesticides, chemical fertilisers, questionable additives, social injustice, unethical...
View Articleeveryday resilience
We’ve made a new film. It’s a little bit different, this one is in support of an article written by our Lael, in the upcoming issue of Permaculture Magazine. She’s not yet twenty, homeschooled all her...
View Articlean introduction
by way of an introduction, we’ve made a little film to tell you about this series chronicling slow, small steps towards living regeneratively. It isn’t just living with greater resilience in this...
View Articlekid goats
With a trio of kid goats around, all the mad craziness of the world falls away, there’s nothing to do but focus on the present moment. The kids ground us no matter what’s going on, they remind us of...
View Articlepick & prune
Our little film, ‘pick & prune’ follows a practice of tending the trees that yields much more than fruit. We made this little picture in the old orchard, the food forest, in late winter and late...
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George, Lucy and Emma watched at the window of the study to be sure that we were doing things properly. Characters. Did you know that they can live 30, even 40 years? I’m picturing myself at 80 with...
View Articlegrapevine
A new appleturnover film, ‘grapevine’ is out! ‘grapevine,’ follows a growing trail of ideas about how we can live in greater harmony with ecological systems when we follow natural patterns. Working...
View Articlebicycle life
What if we chose the electric bicycle as our primary way of getting around? Instantly lowering our costs of living, lowering our carbon, increasing our health, supporting the autonomy of young and...
View Articlewinter review
As is fitting in the early days of the year, our latest film is a winter review, a look back at our first steps and a preview of the new.It feels good to take stock in the winter.To set some...
View Articlegrain mill
We are ever so pleased to present you with our new film, grain mill! Milling grain by hand in the farmhouse kitchen makes us a more resilient, autonomous household. Human-powered, pedal-powered...
View Articlebroody hen
Much like a mother hen setting, hatching and raising her chicks, making our new film, ‘broody hen’ has been a labour of love. — Even without the ecosystem services of adding fertility to the gardens,...
View Articlethe journal of small work*
I give you the first film in my new series, the journal of small work*. How can we live well within the limits of our living systems? These films are a response to overwhelming urgency. In the face of...
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biochar
Having wholeheartedly internalised aspirations to productivity in my youth, the inner capitalism doesn’t like to let go without a fight. Luckily, many aspects of living regeneratively provide a yield...
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