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Deck the halls with boughs of Holly – Christmas Wreath Workshop

Not just holly! Laurel, redwood, ferns, hawthorn, spruce, cotton lavender, ivy, heather, artichokes, alder, willow, spruce and many, many more. Take a sprig of laurel, no ordinary laurel, Otto Luyken’s low growing one. Add a spray of a bronze  leaved conifer wearing its winter clothes, darkened from summer green, Microbiota decussata from Vladivostok. A spruceContinue reading “Deck the halls with boughs of Holly – Christmas Wreath Workshop”

Wild Carrot Seed Spice Cake – Recipe

We have collected quite a bunch of wild carrot seeds from along the bog road that leads to our house. It is a quiet road which does not have much traffic travelling along it. The concave seed heads make them easy to identify and they are quick to pick. Harvest them when dry and removeContinue reading “Wild Carrot Seed Spice Cake – Recipe”

Rustic Italian Grape Cake -Recipe

24 pots of jam have been made from our haul of grapes, also nearly four liters of grape cordial Hanna made a delicious cake from an Italian recipe replacing sweet wine with white port. YUM! THE RUSTIC ITALIAN GRAPE CAKE Ingredients 225ml dessert white port wine 200g light muscovado sugar 100g softened butter 3 eggsContinue reading “Rustic Italian Grape Cake -Recipe”