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I had a pile of leftover rice/peas/nuts with some really nice pumpkin and parsnip soup in a pool in the middle, soup cooked on the woodstove yesterday... with some mystery chutney on the side.. twas yummy!

This is one of my dilemmas, the dead wood for biodiversity versus wood for my stoves one. Another thing which bugs me is when trees are being felled and good big branches are being fed through a fossil-fuel-guzzling shredder... branches which I'd be happy to trim, cut, split and stack. I'm about to ...

I've been collecting and eating wild mushrooms for over 25 years. I'm a firm believer in several rules about wild fungi: 'Only pick anything you are completely sure of'; 'only pick what you need'; don't pick over-mature specimens as they will be full of fly-larvae (and I'm vegetarian!). Below, I lis...

No I can't as I guess it being under an Olive means you are in a more Mediterranean country than me (UK) but it is really lovely looking! Good photo, pretty mushroom. Sorry!

Hi there! I like the idea of self-sufficient-ish... lots of people say to me that I must be self sufficient but I ALWAYS say that there's loads of things I can't do for myself, or don't want to do for myself... and I'd rather go and earn money to pay someone else to do. I'm also a member of YorkLETS...