We have just won Sustainable Living Blog of the Year 2021 as part of the SME News UK Enterprise Awards because of the way that we talk about our sustainable,…
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In August, we reviewed Mountfield’s largest push lawn mower, the Empress 51 Li, which we put to the test on our field and front lawn. We have a small back…
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Earlier this year, we launched Renewable Heating Hub that focuses on all matters pertaining to heat pumps and renewables. We’re very pleased to announce that the Renewable Heating Hub YouTube…
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When it works as it should, you can’t knock the Vortex home sewage treatment plant that the previous owners installed. It works brilliantly. In three years, however, we have learnt…
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Last year, we grew Maris piper potatoes and we had a really good haul. While it was decent amount of potatoes, we had to discard a lot of the potatoes…
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We harvested our onions and shallots about six weeks ago, and they’ve been curing in our open garage. It’s taken a really long time for the onions in particular to…
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The path to sustainability and growing your own food is not always an easy one. The weather in our part of the world this summer just hasn’t been kind to…
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We’ve been reviewing a lot of battery-operated gardening equipment this year, and one of the most useful pieces of kit you can have is a trimmer and brush cutter to…
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I always thought I’d enjoy home-brewing beer and I’m enjoying the process more and more after every batch. It’s the Czech-style we produced in June that has really triggered a…
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This week we put up another Netatmo security camera to monitor our back garden, which was a tricky installation because we needed to drill through a thick, insulated wall to…