We picked the last of our pears today and that is the end of a bumper crop this year! We’ve been eating them, juicing, making cider, giving them away and this weekend I had Amy & Zoe help me dry them too.
Here’s a photo of our last lot of apples and pears and our attempts at drying.
Next year I’ll have to look at preserving…
This seems to be a common concern of many people. It’s often a reason people seek out wellbeing coaching for an answer and to find ways to help themselves. For exhaustion is not a pleasant experience. Tiredness causes poor decisions, makes us cranky, stops us from looking after ourselves well and leads to feelings of…
I will start by confessing that I am obsessed with juicing. Up until quite recently I have always been a pretty sporadic ‘juicer’, going through phases and then neglecting my juicer all together. Over the last few months I have been making an effort to have at least one juice per day and have noticed…
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