Blog Archives

What’s Your Post-Apocalyptic Plan?

Alright, I’ve been watching Survivors on BBC, and the Walking Dead, and I saw The Road a few weeks ago, so end-of-world scenarios are in my head.  The more I see movie and TV shows try to tackle this big

Posted in Events, Gardening, Home Improvement Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,

Harvesting

Some say we’ve lost touch with the land.  We whizz around in cars, staring at glowing rectangles all day, and the natural world is at best, a disturbance, at worst, invisible.  Not so!  Harvesting your own food is simple, rewarding,

Posted in Gardening Tagged with: , , , , ,

Foraging and Bad Haircuts

My boy learns quickly.  On his regular wagon rides around the yard and garden, in which he thrusts his arm forward like a Roman charioteer, we often stop to pick fresh strawberries.  Now when I put him down to roam

Posted in Gardening, Parenting Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,

The End of a Leafy Era

I can’t say I’m sad to see it go.  The massive kale and collard green plants in our garden have gone to flower and having grown to umbrella size, survived a plague of grey dusty mites, weathered a blazing hot

Posted in Gardening Tagged with: , , , ,

How to Meander

“Babbo, what’s meander mean?” asked CH about a word we’d just read together. “Meander is to wander without a goal, just to go here and there and enjoy yourself,” I replied. Some days are the best because they are unplanned

Posted in Gardening, Parenting Tagged with: , , , , ,
Peter Soutowood's books on Goodreads

Subscribe and get updates

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Archives

Follow on Bloglovin