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July – Sudden abundance
The first week in July and already our vegetable garden is producing an abundance of tasty food. Nina’s medlar has settled in nicely. Everything is mulched to hold moisture and suppress those...
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August – Pulling up Potatoes…
We have been away from The patch for quite a few weeks but on returning during August was a great surprise and the harvest was excellent from the veg garden. We were able to give my Granddad a nice...
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Foraging and Preserving
Most of our carrots seem to be ready and we’re picking them as we need them at the moment…stacking in time!!! Nina has been busy foraging hazels, crab apples and blackberries from around The Patch and...
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November at The Patch
On returning from our road trip we came back to a very different Patch. As we move through autumn our vegetable garden has started to die back although there are still a few bits and pieces to...
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Mum’s Medlar Jelly
It’s that time of year again when Mum has an abundance of medlar fruit hanging on the tree in the front garden. In years gone by she has let friends in the village come and take them away but this …...
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The Planning Application
When we arrived back to The Patch after a couple of music festivals in mid July we were surprised to find a planning enforcement notice attached to the new roof we had erected. It turns out that as we...
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Patch Update…
Happy new year everyone! We have not heard anything yet from the council regarding our planning application but we’re keeping our fingers crossed. More trees arrived from Martin Crawford at the end...
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Nimby nature
Recent objections to our planning application reviewed in a few short videos…
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Patch Packdown
I’m writing this post from a blue washed rooftop in Chefchaouen, Morocco. We arrived a week ago after a fairly hands on last week at the Patch in England. We managed to do everything we felt we...
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Planning Granted!!!
Today we received the long anticipated news that our planning application was granted. We’ve been checking almost daily to see if there has been any change on the online application and what a relief...
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