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Sep 13, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Chris Hope |Alan Carter |Anne Stobart |Vera Greutink
Rosehips are the fruit of roses, which are members of the Rosaceae family, and have long been used for food, perfumery and medicine. Rosehips are used in many countries, being a rich source of vitamins and minerals, and can be consumed in many food products including jams, jellies, marmalades, teas, powders, baked goods, ice creams, yoghurts, candies, pulps, nectars, juices, wines, liqueurs etc.
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May 20, 2024 | 
propertychronicle.com | Alan Carter
Bloomberg company news continually tells me that real estate shares are hitting a 52-week high. You’d have thought that was good news, and in a way, it is. But it rather masks the fact that the FTSE 100 and the FTSE All Share Index have also not just hit their 52-week high, but also their all-time high, and by some margin. As such, UK REITs now lag the All Share Index by nearly 12% YTD. Not a single REIT within our 30-strong coverage list has outperformed the broader equity market.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Anne Stobart |Stephanie Hafferty |Vera Greutink
Pippa Chapman, garden designer and author of The Plant Lover’s Backyard Forest Garden, talks about her most favourite combinations of plants for perennial food gardens, large or small, that are both beautiful and tasty. She offers ideas for ground covers, shrubs, nitrogen fixers, pollinators, flowering edible bulbs … Pippa also encourages us to plant for the pure joy of plants, their beauty and scents, and for year-round interest for both humans and to provide food for insects and birds.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Chris Hope |Anne Stobart |Glennie Kindred
Medicinal herbalist and forest gardener, Anne Stobart, shares the healing properties of the raspberry plant, and how to make a raspberry oxymel for a sore throat.
RaspberryRubus idaeus Latin nameRubus idaeus L. FamilyRosaceaeHabit ShrubHardiness USDA zones 4-7 | UK zone 3Parts used Fruits/leavesHarvest time Leaves in April-May, fruits in June onwardsA deciduous fruiting shrub with traditional uses of the astringent leaves for diarrhoea and as a uterine tonic.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Anne Stobart |Alan Carter |Liz Zorab |Stephanie Hafferty
Anne Stobart, medical herbalist and forest gardener, shares the healing properties of douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and how to make fir shoot vinegar for colds and flu.
Latin name Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco. Family PinaceaeHabit Very large treeHardiness USDA zones 3-6 | UK zone 7 Parts used Bark/leaves/resinHarvest time Young needles in June-August, bark all yearA large North American conifer with aromatic needles and bark offering much help in respiratory complaints.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
propertychronicle.com | Alan Carter
A lousy summer, an unsatisfactory conclusion to The Ashes, for us, wrapped up warm for the first day of the football season, and a job following the quoted real estate sector. Happy? Hmm…So, rates up means REITs down, but the volatility over the past few months and indeed year has been like little else I’ve known. Mid-July and the CPI “print” shows inflation falling faster than the market anticipated.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Caroline Aitken |Anne Stobart |Stephanie Hafferty
Imagine transforming your garden, allotment, even your patio, into a multilayered edible wildlife haven! Garden designer, author and forest gardener, Pippa Chapman, chats to Permaculture magazine’s Maddy Harland, exploring how she starts designing and implementing perennial food gardens. Observation is key to all designing, and a base map is also vital in creating the best design for your space.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Alan Carter |Anne Stobart |Caroline Aitken |Liz Zorab
Imagine a garden that is not only full of beautiful trees and shrubs, it is also a place of healing where the gardener grows medicinal herbs, plants, woody shrubs and trees. Dr Anne Stobart describes how she became a medicinal herbalist, taught professional herbal medicine at university level and now grows and makes her own herbal medicines. She explains how her partner and herself have transformed a small conifer plantation into a medicinal forest garden.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
propertychronicle.com | Alan Carter
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
permaculture.co.uk | Tanya Anderson |Alan Carter |Chris Hope |Stephanie Hafferty
Courgettes are useful plant in the veg garden – once established they can provide fruit all summer and right through into autumn. And many of you will know, they can be so abundant, that it can be hard to eat them all!Liz Zorab from Byther Farm, and her YouTube friends, are here to help! They share a wide variety of recipes to use up your glut of courgettes / zucchinis.
