Abundance is not the word I'd reach for when describing the past year's veg successes. It's been more a little taste of this a...

Putting aside my liking for the songs of Lou Reed (amazing how these things resurface when needed!), I promised the results of my trial of...

This is what the postman brought me at lunchtime today: Sophie - she of the prize winning pumpkin - chose to share her Fortnum's ham...

(And by "we, I don't mean me at all but the junior members of my sister's family!) This Hallowe'en I couldn't make it...

Autumn harvest - squashes, late ripening tomatoes, foraged rosehip jelly and syrup. It's late Autumn, things are supposed to be slac...

~ Dew be-jewelled grass seedhead ~ Given the leaden skies and storms we've had over the last week, I'm treasuring every sunny ...

My favourite image from last Friday's course:  The Castor Oil plant (Ricinis communis). (Not to be confused with Fatsia Japonica, the...