What's your favourite thing to grow ? I love to grow vegetables especially giant butternut squash that you ca grow in abundance and they keep for months. So tell me what's your favourite thing to grow and more importantly why you love to grow it ?

What a fabulous space - we truly need this!! I am here speaking through the plants, the ones who are here to bring us back into ourselves through their medicine. We are in talks with a land guardian we have known for 30+ years about being custodians of 1/2 acre to implement a herbal apothecary garden and form a Community Supported Herbalism guild - access to herbal medicine on a donation basis, mini herbal consults, real time behind the scenes of all the planning and implementation and hands on days for small numbers to experience how to grow and work with herbs, cultivated and wild...plus a forest garden within all of this that will feed visitors and the village community as it establishes. We are even planning integrating hens into the system - for eggs and pure entertainment with their antics...we LOVE our chickens!! We are based in Buckinghamshire in a tiny village close to where all the devastation of HS2 and the EW rail fiasco is...thankful of the peacefulness of where we are though...this was our herb spiral on the land a few years ago before we had to leave it and tend to my mother as she transitioned out of her body...it is now a paddock again with a very overgrown raspberry plantation we are about to restore...

Good afternoon. I just wanted to share a useful tip with you that will save having to buy commercial detergents. English ivy is abundant. If you fill a pot with it and simmer it in water for 30/40 minutes you can use 1 to 2 litres of it in your washing machine with a few drops of your favourite essential oil. Your clothes will come out clean and fresh. I first tried it when I was given the old cloth from a snooker table. I was amazed that it came out the machine like new.

I am inviting as many people as I can to join our community. Early days but I am guessing that there will be over 100 members by next week. Would anyone like to place a bet 😁

We were thoroughly inspired by Richard's and Mark's discussion on Odysee this evening. It feels like the only way to go and we look forward to discussing ideas and learning the best ways forward. Julz and I have worked on our allotment for 3 years and things are just starting to come right. No pain no gain as they say as we started with the wrong seeds and plants from ASDA. Last year we created a rocket stove made using refractory stone, which we installed next to our shed. And it has been a real pleasure inviting friends to pick their own veg and cook their own dinners using just a handful of sticks. We call it a "Bring your own meat party". We look forward to connecting with other like minded hands-on souls.