As a new gardening season starts, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at just how sustainable gardening and the plant growing industry is. With the current issues of global warming, use of fossil fuels and plastic, I feel it is up to us all to question […]

I had hoped that by now I would be writing about how well my garden was looking, after I had cleaned it all up, mulched and prepared it for planting. However, given the atrocious weather we have endured for practically the whole of February, nothing much has changed. The ground […]

Spots, pimples, blemishes – no doubt you’ll be familiar with what having a spot or two is like. Unfortunately, when it comes to breakouts, these aren’t solely confined to our hormonal teenage years, many adults still suffer from spots. However, this doesn’t mean that you’re powerless against them. Whether it’s […]

Recently, I’ve become very interested in the detail of how CBD is extracted and measured, (lots of chemistry, HPLC columns and frankly processes I don’t fully understand!). This got me thinking about where CBD comes from and whether there are more natural forms of these compounds available. I came across […]

Baracoa, in Guantanamo province, is the oldest and most remote town in Cuba. At the very easterly tip of the country it’s the most Irish of Cuban towns. Add on twenty degrees and you could be home. The weather changes constantly, clouds rolling in dumping rain, the wind from the […]

The permacultural momentum is gaining, spring is in the air and fresh ideas are bubbling out of hibernation, but before I move onto our next principal ‘Obtain a Yield’, I want to share last month’s progress. Over the last month I have been chatting to everyone and anyone about the […]

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