September is the perfect month to get pressing!
Be that olives for oil, grapes for wine, apples for cider or experimenting with our new cheese press.
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When I first heard that phrase, in Sunday School as a child, my mind conjured up a very sticky scene akin to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ with waterfalls of honey and rivers of milk, it sounded rather sickly – not somewhere I wanted to live. Over the years, I’ve realised that milk and honey are simply the evidence, the fruit, of a very fertile, lush land. Bees can only make honey with bountiful flowers around and milk flows strongest when the animals are happy in pasture. This month I’ve milked a sheep and harvested honey, with minimum sticky mess…
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Swimming and Sourdough? That’s an unusual combination, but that’s what’s been filling my time this month. September is always busy as it’s harvest time, but this year as well as celebrating Sourdough September, we’ve also celebrated my First Swimversary!
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I’ve been chatting to a miller that I know, the lovely Emily at Wessex Mill in Wantage near Oxford, and she explained what’s been happening to all the flour recently.…
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As the nights draw in, what’s better than sausages and mash? Especially when you’ve seen how happily the pigs have lived…
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What do you do if you find yourself with spare milk in the heat of high summer? Make it into cheese of course! Our feature in Country Living Magazine this month shows how Life is Better with Feta…
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Christmas is coming and we are very excited… We have already run some of our Christmas Courses, helping others get ahead with their preparations, and we’ve been to a Christmas…
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The perfect start to the year… One of the advantages of running your own business is that you can choose when to take a longer than usual break from work…
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September always seems to be busy; back from holidays and into harvest time with honey to extract and cider to make, then all kinds of pickles and preserves to make…