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Sorrel's a nice idea. 1200 seeds for £1.48 I discover. So is elder. And wild garlic. In fact, so are all your ideas. Thanks for sharing your wisdom!

Best wishes, and 10,000 salaams, 2RM

Yeah, I think exhaust fumes are the killer as far as human food production goes. Nevertheless, roundabouts are often dead space. I'd like to see awards for roundabouts, annually distributed, along the lines of 'most aesthetic', or 'most ecofriendly', or 'most imaginative' or 'most-pretty-much-anythi...

Hi,I love your enthusiasm,but won't the council mow over it?And if someone grasses you up,will it breach anything on your tenancy?Don't want to sound negative(Sorry if I do xx)but I would hate the thought of you watching crops grow,and then somebody on a ride on decides to just run over them all!!!...

I live in a council flat in Bristol. The powers that be spent a load of money renovating the area, last year. The result is that 2 storeys beneath me there are three plots of land, about 15m square, all planted with grass in the middle and a hedge on three sides. These 'plots' are east facing, but g...

2ndRateMind wrote: PS. Just bought your book, Dave, and greatly looking forward to devouring it's wisdom when it gets delivered.

Book arrived. Flicked through. Looked like a smashing read. Will start on chapter 1 tonight.

Best wishes, 2RM.

Looked for the petition, but it seems to have expired. Anyway, I couldn't find it. Shall we start another one, on the basis that the relentless drip, drip, drip of water torture is bound to have an effect sooner or later? I also think bigger questions need to be asked about why the general populace ...

...At the windmill hill city farm, in Bristol. Did it, loved it. I've been brewing wine for sometime now, and get considerable satisfaction from a 5 gallon bucket full of something alcoholic. But Andy showed us a load of stuff, including how to make prison brew using orange juice, a piece of bread, ...

Seems to me that adopting an -ish lifestyle is certainly a political choice, and may also evidence religion at it's best as well. I totally get what the moderators are saying, but it would be a shame if the ethical choices we make because of our religious and/or political world-views were edited out...

On the Guppie theme, ordinary sticklebacks do the job. When I was a kid, I had a fish tank, and we used to hunt for fish in the local drainage ditches, and then keep them in the tank. I did my 'O' level biology project on it. And we'd fish out mozzie larvae as a special treat for them. If you have a...

I've just started a new blog. It's about food, because that's what I like. And it's about politics, because food is a political issue. It's aimed at people like me, who want to save the world, but find that Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros, Richard Branson and the Duke of Westminster have rin...

I'm not voting for anyone, because none of my finely crafted, subtly pointed, carefully worded exemplars of the epitome and apex of english language skill made it for consideration. If you wanted random entries, with questionable scan and rhyme, you should have said so. If you wanted limericks, then...

The thing is, it's not such a silly idea. All you need to do is boil off the water, and collect the taste. There must be a reason why armagnac is drunk neat, but frankly, I would have preferred the cider it was made from, not being a spirits fan. And unit for alcohol unit, if one could ship cider fo...

Just to let you all know I am having my beard trimmed. It's a little unkempt at present, scruffy at the sides and such. So, if all goes well and it doesn't rain, I shall be having it shaped at the barber's tomorrow. After that, if there are any hippy chicks out there looking for sugar daddy, well, I...

It's not a limerick, but I thought I'd share this one with you, on Rain Forests: Though we share the Earth as mother I will call no Axeman brother; For I have seen the forest rent Where Axeman trod with fell intent, Leaving, when he’d spent his lust Our mother naked, but for dust Stripped her robes ...

Well, I just thought I'd fill you all in on the email I had from the guy at the local International Development Agency. He thinks it's a good idea but: He's not sure about the name Poor Food Day. If you can think of a better one, let me know. He's not sure about the date of Ash Wednesday 2010. He th...