Health & Garden Tips
Introduction to Living Foods
Elaine Bruce welcomes you to her Living Foods kitchen. No. 1 of Elaine Bruce's demonstrations.
Herbal Teas: add to your smoothies by Jill Davies
Herbal tea drinking is a great trend that is ever increasing and this alone can really help our plate diversity endeavours. We can also extend our repertoire to adding herb powders into smoothies. Just one great choice that springs to mind is Ginkgo powder (1/2 to 1...
Planting out seedlings…
Frosts should be over by now and second batch seedlings can go out. Don’t forget a few organic slug pellets.
Indoor greens for healthy Brexit proof GMO free salads…
Growing your greens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_nOxbAlYVA
Wild plants for spring salads
Look for young nettles for juicing and the first fresh dandelion leaves to add to salads. Both these are good springtime cleansers. Also the young garlic plants will be scenting the damp stream banks and shady woodlands. Again for salads and for a digestive tonic....
Preparing the spring vegetable bed…
The veg bed is tucked up under a thick layer of compost topped with cardboard. The soil will warm up over the next couple of months and in theory be ready for young plants, but it is such heavy wet clay here, I will leave it quite a lot longer...
A spring clean for your digestive system
Spring equinox in late March is the time for an internal clear out, as I remind you every year. Start now by cutting right back now on carb and fat comfort foods, and spend a few weeks focusing on getting thoroughly well hydrated.
Look after the soil, and grow your own…
Need a mineral supplement? This is why…. Soils have depleted by 50% since 1940, with the rise of artificial fertilisers. NPK. and over working the soil to depletion. Grow some of your own if you can
Herbs for colds and flu from Jill Davies
Easy Plants for Flu and other Respiratory Illness Thorough hand washing and staying away from crowds is a given but for those unable to avoid people to this extent what are our options? For many I know I’m going to repeat myself but….our ‘Onion and Horseradish...
Herbs and good habits for digestive health. From Jill Davies
Gut Bacteria ‘Good bacteria’ crucially prevents potential pathogens from multiplying and invading our body and for this roughly between 1000 and 40000 bacteria work on digestion and gut issues. The type and ‘diversity’ of our gut microbiota will be crucial to our...