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Stag Beetles
This handsome fella is a stag beetle. We snapped him sauntering past our local pub. With apparently not a care in the world. But it turns out the stag beetle’s a globally threatened species. His...
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How To Grow Zucchini
Courgettes – zucchini to you Americans – have to be one of the coolest vegetables to grow as a beginner gardener or with kids. They’re unbelievably easy and will grow in pots and containers so,...
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How To Forage Blackberries
Blackberrying is one of my happiest memories of childhood. Roaming over beautiful Cannock Chase. With other families from our street. Or my grandparents. Stuffing our mouths with those luscious...
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Foraging Wild Food For Beginners
This post includes affliate links, read here how these work. My little picky eater happily munches blackthorn berries from the hedgerows. She won’t touch a banana. Or an orange. But hand picked...
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Fall Leaf Craft
This post includes affliate links, read here how these work. We live in south London. Just a few miles from St Pauls. But we’re surrounded by trees. The lovely park at the end of our street is a...
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How To Grow Your Own Mushrooms
Post includes affliate links, read here how these work. Growing mushrooms is one of the easiest gardening projects to share with kids – or to try as a beginner – and is perfect in winter when it’s...
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Growing Vegetables With Kids
Growing vegetables with kids IS the best! You don’t have to be remotely green fingered to help. AND growing vegetables, kids get to: Play out Get muddy Look after something Produce something real...
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Spring Nature Activities For Kids
Spring is on its way, it really is. It’s been pouring down here in London and the wind has had a really bite to it, but the blossom is blooming, the daffodils are opening in the sunshine and the birds...
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Quick Growing Vegetables
It’s been a wake up call and a half hasn’t it? Few of us have really had to think about where our food comes from for a long, long time. Cash may have been tight but there was always fresh food in the...
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Growing Lettuce
We picked our first lettuces two weeks back. And had them freshly picked for tea in the garden with pizza. Our cheeky garden robin landed on the table to scrounge some. The lettuces were so delicious...
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