In the last few years, awareness has grown as to the problems of plastic use and the damage that discarded plastics can do to our oceans and wildlife. Most of us now do all we can to recycle plastic … read more

In today’s blog post, we’re going to leave behind the familiar jams, pickles and preserves that we often write about, to look at something a little more unusual; a fermented fizzy drink called kombu … read more

We wrote recently about the process of fermentation and, more specifically, about kombucha tea and how to make it. In today’s blog post, we thought we’d continue on the theme of fermented drinks wit … read more

Do you ever wonder how people who lived thousands of years ago preserved food, before the advent of refrigeration? One of the ways was through lacto-fermentation.  Fermentation is a form of pres … read more

Here are a couple of ideas for you to try out in 2019 to help you manage those large fruit crops. Often our customers have grown or been given excess fruit and the question is what to do wit … read more