A Stitch Up: Mending Our Clothes and the Planet
In today’s fast-fashion world, clothes are often seen as disposable. A ripped seam or a missing button leads to a one-way trip to the donation bin (or, more likely, the…
In today’s fast-fashion world, clothes are often seen as disposable. A ripped seam or a missing button leads to a one-way trip to the donation bin (or, more likely, the…
Our cats have no shortage of cosy places to sleep, but we were intrigued to try out a sustainable cat house from Honismart that is made from paper and comes…
We’ve undertaken multiple paths to be more sustainable and we started our journey by putting in an air source heat pump and solar PV array to decarbonise our heating and…
There is no better start to the morning for me than enjoying a stroll around the garden with a cup of tea. As gardeners we typically get out to the…
We received nookary’s all-purpose probiotic cleaner this week, which is environmentally-friendly, refillable and vegan. We were sent the blend of Sicilian lemon and bergamot, which delivers a sweet, fresh, citrusy…
We are at a crossroads. We committed to going down the sustainability route when we moved into Home Farm, and one of the major upgrades was installing an air source…
It’s been two years since we made a complete lifestyle change, where we left the stress and frenzy of city life behind us, and opted for green fields, sheep, toads,…
While we’ve done our utmost to stop using plastic bags for storage in the kitchen, it’s been difficult to get rid of them completely; until now. Kirsten recently purchased a…
Our vegetable garden journey has been an eventful one, but it’s done and now it’s about the real business at hand: planting, growing and harvesting our veg.
Resuming from part one of our series, in this installment we’ve finished putting up the paling fencing, we fill the first raised bed with a mixture of compost and John…