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As I sit at my computer, with the wood burner bursting into life as morning logs are added to the preceding nights...

In order to create one of those generous, comforting family lunches that can override a chilly Sunday, our Rayburn was...

I was meeting with a new colleague - Peter, a sanguine character who has over many years purchased grains and kernels...

My gap year in a Norfolk garden continues to usurp my fragile sensibilities. No sooner has a superlative plan been...

Surprisingly, from the first unqualified planning of my future crops until the steady intake of our daily vegetable...

A few years ago, whilst attending the annual Wine Trade Fair in London, the Tannoy system crackled into life to...

With a pastoral life providing joy, nourishment and occasional debate, the odd visit to my local pub inevitably offers...

As a wine merchant the term 5-a-day has always conjured up alternative connotations to those of my more self-conscious...

The wish to grow my own food whilst examining the culinary cultures of the world has had some modest even subliminal...

I am beginning to think Peter Mayle’s international bestseller A Year in Provence is something of a walk in the park....

In my last journal I tried to pin down the rationale behind my self- imposed adventure into food independence and...

I am about to turn a small area of grassland, peppered with some half a dozen spindly, lacklustre fruit trees, into a...