Drumrash

04/06/2024

01/06/2024

Use local and grow your own 🥗

📸 Credit .waste.ed_

31/05/2024

Our boy lost his lady in the last winter storms - must have got spooked and not seen since. He is a very dedicated chicken watcher but does long for a lady pea. If anyone knows of any peahens looking for a new mate and a new home do let us know. We have lots of fields for her to roam with our lad.
He is a gentle soul who adopted us and the made his home here. Just look how pretty he is - and he knows it 💜💜💜

29/05/2024

We love edible so-called 'weeds' almost as much as we love this illustration by Kt Shepherd Permaculture

Edible wild plants have been at the forefront of our minds this week because it is...

💚 Be nice to nettles week! 💚

This humble plant plays a critical role in preserving wildlife.

They are known to support at least 40 different insect species 🐛 including some of our more familiar and colourful butterflies and less familiar, but equally beautiful, moths 🦋 .
The insects that nettles support are often nutritious food for birds 🦅 .

Apart from the direct benefits to wildlife, these versatile plants can save us some money if we grow and use them to make our own nitrogen rich nettle fertiliser.

Simply half fill any water tight container with nettles, make up the other half with water, give it an occasional stir … and wait ⏰ After a few days it will have started brewin' and bubblin'.
After another 3-4 weeks strain off the solids to the compost heap and “serve” the remaining liquor (it will be smelly, but full of goodness - it's worth it, we promise!). Dilute 1 part nettle fertiliser to ten parts water, and hey presto! Your plants will love it! 🌼

Nettles are also delicious 😋

Young nettle tops (picked anytime from early spring to early summer) can be steamed or simmered, like any green vegetable. They are full of vitamins and minerals, but especially iron, so great for your health 💪 as well as the health of the earth 🌍

Just make sure you only eat plants that you 100% know the ID of, research their edibility carefully and that they're not somewhere where there is a possibility that they have been sprayed or polluted.

Love and embrace your nettles, and you'll reap the benefits!

28/05/2024

Some amazing pics from hen auntie Rosie Porteous of some of our gorgeous girls, their dedicated fan and pretty boy Mr Peacock and a bee 🐝 which fell in the pond but saved itself very quickly - we were on standby 😘

26/05/2024

Keep painting the soil and sky! 💚🌿🌱🌾🌺

25/05/2024

Mycorrhizal fungi - the internet of plants!

25/05/2024

23/05/2024

🌱💚🐝🎨 Styngvi • Vegan artivism