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First of all, Happy New Year, to all followers of the Blooming Green blog. Like many of you we were nestling under a blanket of snow for a week or so… It was very beautiful, but it’s nice to think that Spring may now be on the way. Last week Bek and I went up […]

We’re almost out of winter wreaths for Christmas 2009. Although it’s a relief to think we are one step closer to putting our feet up, we’ll both miss the days spent twining willow into bases, gathering materials and then concocting individual wreaths to sell to friends, family and through various Christmas markets. (One of our

Over the last few weeks I have rapidly learnt why farmers, like my parents and uncles and aunts, are so affected by the weather. In the past I’ve huddled indoors, in a warm house or office and marvelled at the drama and gloom of stormy weather. Now that our livelihood depends on the elements, it’s

In the last few days we’ve planted nearly 1000 tulip bulbs – by hand – and a fair few Allium bulbs as well. Highest priority this week were the alliums, which needed to go in earlier than the tulips and were also starting to go a little moldy. We’ve left our Allium ‘Sphaerocephalon‘ in from

The season of mellow fruitfulness continues to be just that. The most exciting fruit in the last couple of weeks was Bek (an Jon’!) baby Rowan… all 8lb14oz of him. He is currently doing his best to make Bek’s maternity leave anything but restful. We have also had a rather fruitful article in The Times

Autumn was always our grandmother Harriet’s favourite time of year. As a Norwegian, who moved to this farm in 1939, she associated it with foraging. Foraging for berries, nuts and mushrooms — and here we are doing a similar thing, collecting interesting things from the hedgerows to go in our bouquets. A couple of weeks