There's something deeply comforting about being indoors, warm and cosy, when the wind is howling outside and the rain batters against t...

(Harlequin Ladybird:  Harmonia axyridis succinea) There's been a lot of fuss over the summer about ladybirds - both our native UK lad...

It's a strange old thing, this blogging lark, isn't it?  One minute I'm feeling that there's nothing to tell, then suddenl...

Over the last few days, skies over the Veg Patch have been leaden, trees bare and the air decidedly damp, cold and unwelcoming. (I catch my...

 Not that I generally give too much thought to such things, but today is traditionally the Last Day of Autumn as we are at the midpoint b...

Recently, a friend of the York Rise Growers wanted to come over and show our children how to build bee hotels but, in the end, didn't...

 I read somewhere that parsley can be difficult to grow from seed - a fact which I'm questioning as our parsley (grown from seed by a ...