"How Tos", Tips & Guides

Practical tips, real experiences, and traditions rooted in farming life.

Transform Your Plot: Practical Vegetable Garden Ideas That Work

Planning comes part and parcle of growing food. If you manage your time and planting well enough your ecosystem can easily thrive, don’t plan enough and mixed results are easy to come by. This is how I plan my vegetable garden ideas.

From Bare Root to Bramley: How To Grow Apples

In this blog we are going to share with you how we like to grow apples and different apple varieties that you can choose and why. Lets dive in.

Pick Your Own Farms UK: 47 Verified PYO Sites & Expert Harvesting Guide (2026)

Pick Your Own (PYO) is becoming more and more popular and rightfully so. Lets look into what to look for when visiting your local ‘Pick Your Own’ farms and allotments.

How Quality Meat Pack Delivery Changed My Weekly Shop

Before subscribing to anything, I’d recommend honestly evaluating your household’s meat consumption. Track what you actually cook over two weeks, not what you aspire to cook, but what genuinely happens.

How to Plant Seeds Successfully: Complete UK Growing Guide

Planting seeds may seem like a doddle but its far from it and can often result in disappointing results. Lets look at how we can produce certain results.

Perfect Timing: When to Plant Sunflower Seeds in Your Garden

Sunflower seeds are nutritious, easily harvested and a wonderful cover crop for animals, but do you know when to plant your sunflower seeds?