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The Pumpkin Patch: Pick-Your-Own at Rougham Estate

Elle

Oct 11, 2022
3 min

Sloe Suffolk

The Pumpkin Patch: Pick-Your-Own at Rougham Estate

One of our favourite things about the Halloween season is decorating the house with pumpkins and squashes of every shape, colour and size.

Kitchen Confessions: Reducing Food Waste

Sam

Sep 28, 2022
3 min

Sustainability

Kitchen Confessions: Reducing Food Waste

Reducing food waste in the kitchen turns-out to be more of an adventure than I had anticipated!

Sam

Sep 17, 2022
2 min

Recipes

Zero-Waste Stir-Fry

This quick, easy stir-fry is a perfect way to use-up all those jars, bottles and packets you have sitting around in your fridge and larder.

Elle

Jul 31, 2022
5 min

Journal

The Small Pleasures of a Picnic

Perfect picnic days can be few and far between, so here are a few quick tips to help you seize the moment when the opportunity arises.

Sam

Jun 20, 2022
5 min

Gardening and Plants

Flowers: an Unexpected Obsession

Flowers bring together so many things that are important to me: the environment, creativity, the appreciation the small details.

Chive Flower Butter: Capturing the Taste of Early Summer

Elle

Jun 9, 2022
2 min

Recipes

Chive Flower Butter: Capturing the Taste of Early Summer

This simple herb butter is a wonderful way to add the rich flavour of freshly cut chives to a meal.

Elle

May 29, 2022
3 min

Gardening and Plants

C is for Chives

Chives may not star in many dishes, but few herbs is as reliable, as beautiful, as good to the garden, or as indicative of early Summer.

Sam

May 8, 2022
3 min

Sloe Suffolk

Weird and Wonderful Wood

Weird and Wonderful Wood is magical in the oldest sense: something earthy and pagan and sacred.

Elle

Apr 28, 2022
5 min

Journal

Spring Storms and Fallen Trees

Spring heralds the return of colour, but also the arrival of storms. The destruction can be terrible, but also brings renewal.

Sam

Apr 18, 2022
3 min

Sloe Suffolk

Walking with Trees: a new exhibition

Woodlands are escape from the world. A place to heal. This power of trees is highlighted in the new exhibition in Bury St Edmunds

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