How to Grow Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables from Kitchen Scraps With the current passion for all things RE, be it cycled, loved or invented, REgrown is a great title. This is a fun and informative book especially for those with little or no knowledge of horticulture and those with a limited budget and not… Continue reading Regrown
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Stitch in Bloom
Botanical- inspired embroidery projects for you and your home I am a great admirer and follower of Lora Avedian, mixed media textile artist and RCA graduate. Like many designers her work looks deceptively simple. However don’t be fooled by this, as like the work of other great textile artists such as Marimeko, Orla Kiely, Zandra… Continue reading Stitch in Bloom
Travel
The Green Edit Easy tips for the eco-friendly traveller By Juliet Kinsman With Global warming being on the agenda at this year's Climate Summit, come to think of it when isn’t it! As much as we are all dying to start travelling again after more than a year in lock down, most of us are… Continue reading Travel
Keeping Hens
A chatty Guide to Chickens by Jane Furnival with Andy and Will Tribble Will Tribble, the son of the other two authors, sums up the book very succinctly thus: ‘If you have purchased a book called Keeping Hens solely for information about keeping hens, all you need to know are two things. The first is… Continue reading Keeping Hens
A Dog’s Guide to Art
By Joy Fitzsimmons A light-hearted look at art through canine eyes. I think I am almost as excited about this book, as the author is herself. As you may recall I interviewed Joy for our ‘Meet the Maker’ series a while back, this is how she described her work. ‘My on going theme is placing… Continue reading A Dog’s Guide to Art