Self Sufficient in Morden.. chickens and vegetables in a small space

After a short respite, the ridiculous rainy weather is back again. A quick trip to the allotment when the rain stopped for a day, and I found out exactly why you should never leave the allotment for a whole month while it’s raining in Spring. Put simply: everything has grown back again. It’s sad to [...]

As research for an article on creative video projects you can do, I came across a site called Stupeflix. It’s really easy to upload your source videos or pictures, edit them online and add title screens etc – and there’s lots of themes to choose from. I made this in about 10 minutes from some [...]

Well, the winter slowed us down a bit, but we’ve back up the allotment a few weekends now so I thought I’d post a quick update on progress so far. We managed to turn over a good part of it that wasn’t too grown over first. We also burnt all the brambles we’d pulled out so [...]

This is by far my favourite bread recipe, ever, and can pretty much become an entire meal in itself. Fantastic accompanied by sour cream and chives dip, or just spreadable cheese! I don’t even want to think how many salaries might be in this. [Note: If you're viewing this is a feed somewhere, click through [...]

I had always gone on the assumption that allotments had a huge waiting list, and looking at the landshare site where you find like-minded individuals in your local area to petition the local council revealed one particular group of locals with the slogan “let’s beat the 30 year waiting lists in Sutton!” – so naturally, [...]

Over the last few months or so, I’ve been playing around with winemaking and just started a batch of ‘hard’ cider. We have a prolific vine running along the fence, so that’s mainly what prompted me to try it. That, and the idea that I could make my own alcohol, mostly for free, is something [...]

A few months ago, I let the chickens out to free range and was shocked to find their underbellies were pecked bare of all feathers, one to the extent that blood had been drawn. It can also occur on the legs. At first, I thought they might just be molting, but it quickly became apparent [...]

Having recently had the urge to make my own wine from the grapes hanging over our fence, I decided to buy one of those typical winemaking starter sets off Amazon – from a company called Ballihoo I believe. It’s a great set, but there is absolutely zero explanation as to what the various bits actually [...]

We’ve had the Eglu for a few months now, and our four hens are performing rather well averaging 3-4 eggs per day, so I thought it’s about time I go ahead and do a full review of the Omlet Eglu Cube. Scroll down if you just want to view all the pictures! Design And Build [...]

We recently began to let the chickens out. I was a little hesitant after finding a fox out there a few months back, but I think it’ll be fine as long as I’m out there with them. The bigger issue is how to stop them eating everything in sight. As it’s the end of the growing season, [...]