The Life Sentence Block

I've always grown garlic.  I love garlic and eat quite a bit of it.  I also love having garlic tied in plaits hanging somewhere in my ki...

I think I mentioned it elsewhere, I have been given a lot of unwashed fleeces from both sheep and alpacas.  When I started working on the al...

Normally, I would think of Winter as being a time of scarcity.  The grass doesn't grow, the veges (mostly) don't grow and feed for o...

A lot of people have expressed surprise that I not only butcher my own pigs, but I also cure my own ham and bacon. There seems to be this ...

For some reason, we're suddenly getting lots and lots of milk from Brownie.  I have quite a few cheeses curing, several bottles in the f...

We woke up this morning to frost on the inside of the windows.  I'm confident we only got the predicted -5 degrees Celsius overnight and...

Again today, I'm in the process of making cheese.  This time I'm having a go at Edam - it's currently setting after the addition...