Benefits of Growing Organic Crops
By engaging in organic gardening yourself, you’ll save money, and by the time your crops are ripe, you’ll feel the well deserved rewards of a fruitful season at your own hands and on your plate.
Salads from My Normandy Garden
With her Normandy garden offering up fresh ingredients, Julia McLean shares the secrets of delicious salads and dressing.
How To Repot A Bonsai – A Graham Potter Video
For more than a decade, Gil Namur has been rescuing seedlings, tending to them and letting them grow in clay pots. Recently, he discovered the bonsai talents of Graham Potter, whose love of tending trees has yielded such inspiring results.
The Latest Food Fad from the Chelsea Flower Show
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show took place over the past weekend. Once more there are gardens for all pockets and tastes — and Julia McLean was there. Read on for inspiration and recipes.
Bees for My Backyard
I’ve been interested in keeping bees for at least a couple of decades, probably since reading Sue Hubbell’s A Book of Bees. Hubbell, once a New York librarian, had moved to the Ozarks and taken up beekeeping as a livelihood. She wrote lyrically of the yearly rhythm of beekeeping, and the keen observation of bee behavior and of flowers in bloom that the bees inspired.
Hard Cider Means Hard Work
Julia McLean’s adventures making cider the old-fashioned way in Normandy, France with a little help from friends.
Lunch for the Press Gang: Cider Season in Normandy
It’s cider season in Normandy, France and Julia McLean loves to prepare homecooked meals flavoured with cider for her press gang helpers. Here are Julia’s delectable recipes. Your mouth will water just reading this and you’ll find yourself wishing you were sitting in Julia’s kitchen in France.
10 Reasons to Celebrate the Big City Escape
An escapee from the big city finds many reasons to love life in a small community on the West Coast.
Life As A Human Likes…3
Life As A Human Likes is a weekly feature of fascinating, enlightening, fun or perhaps just odd blogs and websites that enliven the experience of being human. This week, we feature 2 outstanding sites that consistently provide excellent content to … Read more →
Lavender
It reminded her of an old boyfriend. It proved incredibly hard to grow. But Hippy Urban Girl soon learned that she had underestimated the trickster of gardens — lavender.
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