by richard | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Cooking, history, Homemade, Recipe
Making Homemade soft cheese is both easy and rewarding and can start you on a quest leading to greater things. Cheese in all is various forms has been part of Human culture for thousands of years and its true origins are unknown. Principally it began as a means of...
by richard | Dec 8, 2018 | Christmas, Cooking, history, Homemade, Recipe, Winter
The traditional Christmas cake is the merger of two dishes traditionally eaten around the Christmas period, Plum porridge or pottage and the Twelfth Night cake. The plum porridge was first cited in 1573 and was traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve. It was also the...
by Em | Oct 21, 2017 | autumn, Glamping, history, Nature
The days are getting shorter and its getting harder to awake in the murky mornings. The leaves are changing colour on the trees and with Storm Brian on the horizon, many are blowing around across the park. There is a great variety of colours from green and brown...
by Em | Sep 21, 2017 | autumn, Blog, Foraging, fruit, harvest, history, Nature, walking
What else could I write about this month, apart from apples? It is autumn on a farm in Somerset. It is that time of year when there is so much fruit in season, every walk involves a bite or a nibble. Both man and beast, we are all well fed. We have many varieties...
