The Accidental Peasant
We live in challenging times, but I believe that the traditional peasant’s way of life has much that we can learn from. Join me through the year as I as I grow, forage and cook, and endeavour to live a simpler life and thrive on my acre of Sussex clay.
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On Sowing the Familiar
26th February 2026
“Seed: That which arises from itself again and again and again.”
Vandana Shiva (at the Slow Seed Summit)
Possibly one of the most optimistic things that one can do is to order seeds from the comfort of bed whilst sippi...
On Cyborgs and Bean Stew
It’s been a while since I last wrote on Substack, and in that time the world has changed …completely.
As I write, I’m watching a squirrel skittering around the garden digging up food supplies that it buried back in the autumn. Squirrels ar...
On Creativity
In the mornings I go out to feed the chickens and collect any eggs they might have laid. It’s a bit of an adrenalin-fuelled experience because as soon as the rooster, Bruce, sees me his dander is up and his sole intent is to protect his flo...
The Law of Always Enough-ness
Photo by mostafa mahmoudi on Unsplash
I’ve been having one of those days, one of those just-enough and not-too-much days. What I mean by that is that I’m having one of those satisfying days where everything is working out in a rather magic...
The Time of Yellow
The sun was shining, birds were singing their hearts out and a bumblebee as big as a hummingbird bobbed through the air heading straight for a gorse bush that glowed in a charcoal tangle of hedgerow.
March is the time of yellow; it is th...
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