From soil scientist to peasant – a life journey

From soil scientist to peasant – a life journey

By Dr Gwen Egginton “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves”   –  Mahatma Gandhi I’ve been hosting WWOOFers for around 40 years now – right from when WWOOF stood for Working Weekends on Organic Farms – but the...
Off the plot and into the woods

Off the plot and into the woods

A quarter of a century ago I began planting woodland trees on a recently acquired 7 acre field about 5 miles from the main plot. Although the field’s purchase coincided with the turn of the century this was not a personal ‘millennium project’, neither was there a...