Christmas 2021

The long wait between growing, picking, distillation and bottling is over! Hello everyone, I cannot begin to convey the absolute thrill of capturing the pure essence of botanicals in water…and thereby, in a bottle. From first growing and nurturing, to anticipating the season, then the auspicious day on which to collect; to the time-honoured labour of

Seed to seed…the continuous cycle at play… Hello everyone, I’m guessing you all know by now that equations really are not my thing! But the simple words of one I scribbled down many moons ago have recently been swirling around my head with such voracity, that they have become impossible to ignore

You knew it would have to be hydrangeas at this time! Hello everyone, Here we are again! Another year… A friend asked me this week how many it’s been since I began (with Kitchen Gardening Days) the round of events and workshops here at Glenmore House, to which I replied

Lavender harvest Decenber 2023, image Bonnie Robertson Hello everyone, Well…summertime has arrived, marking the end of one helluva workshop and event-full year! I can’t pretend I’m not relieved at the prospect of downing the event-prep timetable and taking a breather but, before I do, I’ve just one more thing with which to

Hello everyone, As the event and workshop year draw to a close, how I look forward to winding up with one to launch us into a reverie of summer dreaming…of lapping waves, billowing sails and exotic ports, when RICHARD & MATILDA DUMAS regale us next week, on FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER with a presentation about

Crop rotation…a time of bounty and transition… Hello everyone, It’s at this time of year the kitchen garden has me in a whirl of excitement! With bountiful baskets contributing a profusion of produce to the kitchen bench, seasonal crop rotation ensures energetic exercise – as I shovel barrow-loads of compost

A single Mutabilis rose bathed in early evening sunlight in the Dairy post Sofra… Hello everyone, What a whirl the post-winter season has been so far, the garden revealing daily treasure as the sequence of seasonal events, workshops and distillations come and go…alongside a multitude of spring gardening tasks that

Hello everyone, How super excited I am to invite you to join RICHARD & MATILDA DUMAS here on FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER for a presentation and conversation about their extraordinary sailing adventure: A YEAR on EL ORO. What a way I thought, as our attention turns to balmy days (and by then the fast approaching festive and holiday

‘everything will be beautiful in the end, and if it’s not beautiful, it is not the end’, India Flint Hello everyone, Confounding! No matter how many workshops INDIA FLINT has run here over the years, when it comes to describing what is likely to occur I must simply defer to her, because India’s realm is

Sofra…a collection of recipes alongside stories, culture and community Hello everyone, I’m delighted to invite you to join me, alongside new authors KARIMA and SIVINE of SUNDAY KITCHEN to celebrate their just released book SOFRA on the afternoon of SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER.  And a celebration it promises to be! Some of you attended the wonderful Feast on a