They have arrived

At long last I have moved forward on my green quest!  I managed to buy a hive with bees. That was just over a week ago and all seems well.

"Bee" there soon.

I've moved further towards a greener lifestyle ,I actually found a place for a small apiary near an allotment, and better still they have spar plots too. Also found a local honey farm who do courses and will supply me with a nucleus of bees.

Time to plan

Well,its that time of year again where I need to consider what to grow. Definitely barlotti bean, and courgettes and hopefully some squash,spinach. Staple stuff like leeks maybe and do fancy trying globe artichokes.  Borrage too for the bees.

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Scrap

After just having to scrap my lovely 19 year old car ,I realised how price can influence activities such as fly tipping. I was expecting at least eighty to one hundred pounds for the car,  instead they say scrap prices have dropped to fifty pounds a tonne reducing its value to forty three pounds and twenty pounds for the catalytic converter.. At these prices small scale retrieval of metals from streets by people has reduced leading to people just tipping by the road side etc.  I am glad to say I've managed to find a much younger car, only 15 years old thereby km keeping another car of age on the road which means one less new one and the excessive use of energy to make it

First shooting of the year

Well we've managed to gain the shooting rights on a 80 acre site nearby.  So a visit was needed. Just on a rough shoot enough wood pigeon for two peoples meals, good start I say so yesterday spent the day building 2 hides so as to cut down setting up time, I just hope the storms last night didn't do them too much damage.
I know shooting is not everyone's cuppa but it provides a welcome source of organic freerange meat for myself and akso helps tge farmer with his crop.

The solstice

Hope you all had a great solstice. And are looking forward to a low waste Christmas.