Talk For A School

I was really lucky again this year to be invited back to Hellens Gardens to give a talk for a school. 

They'd been going to the school and building a garden with them and planting seeds with the year 3 class. This was the last day and involved some crafts and planting as well as a talk from me about growing food. 

Sweet Chestnut Raised beds

Well it's taken me a year, but I finally have some raised beds in that I can use. Well nearly... I still need to fill three of them. 

Wild Garlic Flat Bread

Last night I fired up the pizza oven for tea, made some dough and sent the children on a foraging walk without me. 

Their mission was to get me some wild garlic we could mix into butter to make amazing flat breads to go with the pizzas. 

Visit To A Vineyard and Garden

 Last week as manic as I've come to expect, but I did manage to steal an hour yesterday to go and see a local garden and vineyard as I'm friends with the daughter in law of the owner. 

It was a perfect spring day (in fact so hot it felt like a summers day), and it was a the perfect break to take from the workshop. 

Easter "Break" Over

 I think my wife and children have had a great Easter break, they've had lots of friends round, lots of time with some of their cousins, and other family, and a few days out (they all went to London on Thursday, but I stayed working at home). 

I feel like I'm starting to catch up now, I've managed to get ahead with a few stock items, and start producing some more batches of my items. I'm trying to make sure I have plenty of gooseberry scoops in stock should they do well again this year, but the batch I started nearly broke me - you can see the number of pieces in the picture above. 

Tomorrow I'm going to do a few other jobs that have been sneaking up on me, and then back in the workshop Monday hopefully.