A fierce wind has been tearing through our land - and our house! - for a few days, and we have been awake a lot. We've been wrestling with mud, perpetual dampness, low resources and worries about the longterm

The winter here in the southern part of the UK has felt like it's dragged on forever. It hasn't been particularly cold, just endless rain and damp. Gloomy. But finally we're seeing the start of spring,

Dear Hive Friends! It has been a grounding and almost celebratory week! We made some significant steps (again!) towards really settling here on our land - symbolic or metaphoric steps that certainly help

Every challenge right now seems to be The Final Straw: our house is not holding up to even the most basic expectations, and our attempts to logicalise fabulous solutions appear to be falling on the Universe’s

My hubby used to feed our chickens whenever he had time. ‎ ‎Some days they get a full scoop of feed, other days only what was left. We assumed eggs would come naturally. ‎ ‎At their age, they should have

Sitting in bed with a scalding hotwater bottle at the base of my back, and @vincentnijman tap-tapping away beside me on the Hive, we’re doing our best to stay cosy of an evening, whilst our miniature stove

It has been the most straining and torturous week yet, and even so, we have made huge progress on the simplest, most important things. The hardest part was firstly coming into conflict with our landlords,

Our wee hovel is coming along nicely! Today @vincentnijman and I had a glorious rainy morning working inside; scraping a ton of ancient, compacted dung off of the ‘floor’, bashing part of the ‘possibly

Talking with @vincentnijman this evening, after having received some big download from Nature on our land today, I am so empassioned to speak to this subject of Being Paid… As an uncompromising artist

It has been a few days since I left my Beloved @vincentnijman at the train station... days filled with packing and organising, cleaning and clearing out my old life - every trip back to the Arthouse another

We were chatting by the field-side, walking up a steep slope, listening to the mizel on the road, the birds chirruping and settling for the evening, looking out across the valley and thinking of our cosy

Daily grape harvest – fresh, sweet, healthy and guaranteed without chemical pesticides.

Dear Hive Friends, Wow, the autumn arrived so suddenly - from Too Hot To Go Outside At Noon .... to hotwaterbottles, duvets and legwarmers, overnight. We're bracing ourselves for the next bout of

I've been on a bit of a mission this year to find ways to use all the edible things that grow in our garden. The goal isn't to consume everything like some kind of locust, it's to work out what we've got

Ciao dearest Friends of Hive and Homesteading Enthusiasts! We have running water! The thrill of suddenly having running water, after two months on our glorious new homestead, is utterly deliziosa.... We've

Now we're in September, there's a real chill in the air at night, and the sky is overcast with rain most days. Definitely starting to feel autumnal already, although we might still get a few sunny days

All week it's been raining hazelnuts ! This is just a quick post, a kind of "mini-update". Our back garden has a very old hazel tree, as well as a self-seeded one in the front garden. This year

Dear Hive Homesteaders & Friends, My latest podcast speaking to The Art Of Life, can be found via the links below: Visit The Art Of Life on Spotify Visit The Art Of Life on Fountain Here I share a

Dearest Hive Friends and Homesteaders! our beautiful Cornus mas tree - one of them; we found 4 already! It is taking a while to appreciate it, but we have just crossed the threshhold into a new dimension:

We seem to have inadvertently turned our garden into some kind of perma-culture. The lawn has pretty much disappeared under potted plants, raised beds and garden furniture, and with the hosepipe ban most