Orto di Casa Cecconi

My first allotment, and then one thing leading to another…

Month: August 2012

  • The how and whys of making yogurt

    I should be writing about crop rotation, so why I’m posting on making yogurt instead? It is a truth universally acknowledged that growing your own affects the way you cook and eat. In my case, it has affected the way I think more broadly, for example about reuse and recycle. On the plot I reuse…

  • Seedy penpals

    I must have written before that I have a collector streak in me, and it comes out with seeds. Every winter I get all the packets out from the recesses of my shed and take stock: I usually end up with some 150-300 species on my database (they have grown over the years both with…