The Moon and the Furrow Blog

Favourite Seasonal Cookbooks

Favourite Seasonal Cookbooks

It's that time of year again when I have increasing amounts of home grown produce just waiting to be eaten raw, cooked or preserved and as I like to be...
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Talking about mental health

Talking about mental health

I have started to talk a bit about mental health on social media and I have held back from going into too much detail. So here is some background into...
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Harvesting Wild Garlic

Harvesting Wild Garlic

  These blogs are increasingly a space for me to document the progress we make moving to our 11 acre woodland in Wales, bought earlier this year and close to...
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Building a compost toilet

Building a compost toilet

Getting permission to build a smallholding and house under the One Planet Development (OPD) scheme in Wales is going to be a very detailed and long process involving a lot...
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Hens in the Garden

Hens in the Garden

I'd like to start by saying I'm not a chicken expert in any way, I just love and care for a small flock of hens which we have had for...
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Planning a herb garden

Planning a herb garden

There are exciting developments on the smallholding front as the sale of the land we are buying winds it's way to completion and a dream that has been alive for...
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Books I love about witches and witchcraft

Books I love about witches and witchcraft

Over the last few months I have been reading novels about witch craft and witches and thought I’d write about them to celebrate All Hallows Eve. So brew a cup...
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The books I use for preserving the seasons

The books I use for preserving the seasons

My work reflects the way I live, closely in tune with the seasons. It just feels like a no brainer to me. It makes sense financially, it makes sense environmentally...
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