This video is the finance update for spring. I go through the value of our harvests, how much we’ve spent, how much we’ve saved off our food bill. I also talk about why this year has been so much better than last year and some plans for the future. If...
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £3,210, smashing all previous records for spring! Harvesting this much gives me immense freedom to spend money to save time and increase food quality and variety, without...
May has been a much more relaxed month than April, sowing just a few seeds and a leisurely planting schedule. Almost all of the summer planting is complete now, with about half of the autumn/winter brassica’s in too. The focus now switches to preparing for an abundant winter and spring,...
In this short video I talk about how and what we harvested in spring, the joy of seasonal eating, what I do with all of the fruit and veg and how I calculate the value of our harvests. Harvest highlights at the end of spring If you are new to...
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £2,983 of fruit and veg this year, so we will definitely make the £3,000 mark before summer starts. That’s twice what we harvested last year, which confirms...
There’s been a lot going on this month so I make no apologies for this fairly long video. May is an interesting month because from an allotment perspective, it’s the month when all of the winter veg is removed and if we get the timings right most of the preparation...
This is just a quick video to introduce some of the books and TV shows that shaped my journey to self-sufficiency, or perhaps self-reliance. The self-sufficiency dream that started when I was 13 isn’t realistic of course, but we have achieved it in some important, perhaps the most important...
Now that the allotments are sorted for summer, my attention has turned to the back garden, what we think of as the Kitchen Garden. It’s a lovely space for relaxing and playing with kids, but it’s also a big part of our overall fruit planting and it has a useful...
If you received this via email click here to get all of the images and videos! Allotment Finances We’ve harvested a total of £2,780 of fruit and veg this year. We’ve spent a total of £672 this year, mostly one time investments. What we’ve harvested and eaten We harvested a...
This video introduces a new update to my garden/allotment planning tools, designed for managing small scale fruit and veg production for fun. I’ve created the tools myself, using a web based database application called Airtable. Airtable also has applications for smartphones and tablets, with some limitations! It’s these apps on...