We need nutrient dense, good quality food for many reasons!

We live in a world where we’re the sickest we’ve ever been, yet we’re meant to be the most medically advanced!

It’s time to take back our power and grow our own food!

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Wild garlic season is here! 🌱

Be careful when foraging for Wild Garlic. There are many toxic lookalikes, such as Lords & Ladies and Lily Of The Valley.

Wild Garlic leaves grow on one stem and come straight out of the ground, Lily Of The Valley will have at least two leaves to a stem. Lords & Ladies has a slightly darker green leaf, which is more heart shaped. They can grow together in close proximity, so be wary. If you are unsure, crush a leaf to see if it smells of garlic.

When foraging, do not grab handfuls of leaves. This can damage the health of the plant for future years, but also raises your risk of picking a toxic lookalike.

Slowly getting there. I have refreshed the empty raised beds and planted another one up with garlic. Last years leeks that were over wintered still look great. I'll probably be digging these up to use soon.

The three raised beds at the back have also finally been filled with soil after being sat empty for months. I've planted one of these up with three crowns of rhubarb that I saved from the green waste pile last year. They are all showing little signs of life. Hopefully, we will have another rhubarb bed next year.

I made a petition to try to save a 3,500 year old grave in Västerbotten, Sweden.

Swedish Authorities want to build a railway right through it. Please consider signing so that we can stop this madness.

https://www.petitions.net/stop_the_destruction_of_a_3500_year_old_grave

Also, as some people have previously asked me about the word Wassail;

Old English had two verbs for 'be', these were wesan (Dutch wezen, Frisian wêze, Icelandic/Faroese/Swedish vera, Danish/Norwegian være) and of course bēon. Much like the word 'go', OE gān, which has taken the past tense 'went' from 'wend', OE wendan, modern English 'be' is a suppletive verb, thus it has merged the infinitive of bēon (along with the past participle been from OE gebēon, West Midlands dialects still use such forms like "How bist?"), with the regular forms from wesan (am, art, is, are (from Old Norse eru > earon, replacing the earlier sind, like German), was, wert and were).

The imperative form is wes, equivalent to 'be', so one would assume that the phrase 'wassail' is from Anglo-Saxon wes hǣl ('be well!', you can also add pronouns wes þū hāl 'be thou hale' or plural wesað gē hāle, 'be ye hale',both of which are attested in Old English) however there is a problem.

Most spellings of hǣl are hāl, which has become modern English 'hale' and 'whole', the latter has a silent W added (likely to avoid confusion with 'hole'), but all are related to words like 'health', 'heal' and even 'holy' and 'hallow'. While it is possible that the phrase comes from dialects using wes hǣl, it is more likely that the same phrase from Old Norse replaced Old English forms, using the more familiar vowel sounds in ves heill, and this was first documented in 1275.