Posted in Mental health, antidepressant, anxiety, anxiety/panic, bipolar, depression, mania, mental illness, psychiatry, psychosis, withdrawal on September 30, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Its cold and wet and dark outside and the allotment can wait til tomorrow! I have used my time wisely and sat down this afternoon to write a bit more about my EFFEXOR story. This is a story I need to tell - so once again in the vein of better out than [...]
Posted in Allotment, Greenhouse, allotmenteering, gardening, horticultural therapy, organic, permaculture, self sufficiency, sustainability on September 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Like most of the country we have lost lots of tomatoes this year due to blight.
The done thing to do is burn the effected plants and tomatoes. Its heartbreaking picking hand-fulls of blighted tomatoes and burning them. Surely we can use the manky mushy toms for something.
What about this?………
Now that is much more fun that [...]
Posted in Allotment, Bargains/Free stuff, allotmenteering, compost, organic, permaculture, self sufficiency, sustainability on September 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Soil Association’s Organic Fortnight is currently running until September 16th 2007.
Amongst other things, they are running a campaign called ‘Wake up Gordan!’. Via a cheeky interactive cartoon you can feed Gordan a delicious organic breakfast and see him burp with satisfaction. The Soil Association will use the number of breakfasts Gordon eats to [...]
Posted in Allotment, Greenhouse, allotmenteering, gardening, organic, permaculture, sustainability on September 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As is widely reported, allotments are changing - more women, ethnic minority groups, and younger people. Crushing the myth that allotments are only frequented by old blokes in flat caps, hiding from the missis, drinking dodgy homemade alcohol and so on.
A UKTV gardens survey of 3000 adults has linked age with types of vegetables [...]
Posted in Allotment, allotmenteering, permaculture, self sufficiency, sustainability on September 1, 2007 | No Comments »
It must be a common experience to see your shed standing proud on your plot of land and then to wanna move in - permenantly. To totally immerse yourself in allotment living, and the good life is so very tempting.
An article in the guardian describes a fellow who did exactly that and what I found [...]
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