Tales of a Kitchen Herbwife

There is something very special about harvesting your own herbs. For me it is also associated with moments of panic, timing, weather consid...

Scents have captured me on several occasions over the past few weeks. The first was the cow parsley hidden behind the fence beside the stati...

Digging should be easy. You push in the fork, pick it up, shake it, remove all the weeds and move on to the next patch. It wasn’t like that ...

Getting to know a plant is a continuing joy. It doesn’t happen quickly, but over a period of several years, circumstances enable you to meet...

It’s been a difficult week. I could blame exhaustion from four weeks preparing for and rushing around the country – two conferences in Londo...

Chris was away painting the caravan last night, so I walked home from the station in glorious sunshine and was able to go out into the garde...

I was going to write about actually spending a week without doing anything herbal, but I realised that wasn't the case - it was just my ...