Archive for the 'organic' Category

May 4th, 2008

Compost Awareness Week May 4th - May 10th

compost.jpg If you read this site regularly you will know that compost is one of my favourite subjects. Next week is compost awareness week running from the 4th to the 10th of May. There are events going on all over the country and it is being supported by celebrity gardener Charlie Dimmock. In my opinion you can never have too much compost so if you ...
July 18th, 2007

Things I have been sent

email.gif Frank Marsland pointed out his new site http://www.organicportal.co.uk/. It is potal for all things organic. Seems almost too much information to me but Frank did point out the typo in the email on the Who am I? page. I received an email from Jessica concerning SHI which is an organisation that works in Central America helping to restore rainforests and encourage sustainable land ...
April 27th, 2007

Compost Awareness Week - Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th May 2007

Click Here Something that I think we all should be doing. It's easy once you have the composting bin. With all this talk about wasting food and reducing the waste going to landfill and the length of time between waste collections this is ...
January 8th, 2007

Organic food

David Miliband the environment, food and rural affairs secretary is right when he says organic food is a lifestyle choice - a choice we should all be making! Although I think it is probably true that it is not necessarily better for you. I think in some ways this misses the point though. Organic farming is good because it looks after the land and looks after wildlife as I ...
September 8th, 2006

New recycling system in Bournemouth

Our new recycling system is apparently now up and running - the main problem for me at the moment is I keep forgetting to put the bins out and that the 'big' bin that is used for the recycled stuff is almost full already and we haven't even put it out yet. Once we get sorted it out will make our lives a lot easier as will not having ...
August 2nd, 2006

Organic Fortnight

Organic Fortnight Organic Fortnight is between the 2nd and 17th of September and is organised by the Soil Association. There are lots of events going on around the country but none it seems, in my neck of the woods. The closest is in Bridport which thinking about about we might be able to get to as we are on our hols then and we ...
August 1st, 2006

More Scenes

More Scenes from a SmallholdingI haven't added anything to this blog for a while and I noticed that Chas Griffin added a comment to my post about Scenes from a Smallholding. I was slightly confused at the 'no relation to Ali' part as my wife is called Ali but it's cool having a celebrity comment. It also good to ...
April 7th, 2006

How should I … shave?

How should I ... shave? - it was Leo Hickman in his book A Good Life, who gave the me the idea of going back to an old fashioned safety razor. I am very happy with this although putting a new blade in can lead to a bloody face, part of this I put down to relearning the art of shaving - ...
November 17th, 2005

UK5 Organics - Organic Food Home Delivery to London

UK5 Organics – Organic Food Home Delivery to London – if you want organic veg delivered to your door and live in London this looks loke the place to go!
November 14th, 2005

Supermarkets lose out as organic food booms

Supermarkets lose out as organic food booms – this is the kind of thing I like to read. Organic food getting more popular and more of it being sourced in the UK!

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