Tuesday, September 4, 2007
By Mike on Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 21:44
In this article, we'll take a look at feral apples - including a tree I found a growing on the waste ground behind my workplace, plus a handful of others I found in a small copse behind the public park.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
By Mike on Sunday, August 5, 2007, 23:01
August 05 2007 - Autumn, or at least some aspects of it - has arrived early this year. We've had a miserably wet and cool summer, but despite (or perhaps because of) this, the blackberries are early, and they're excellent.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
By Mike on Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 19:38
We were out of a walk at manor Farm Country Park and not 100 yards away from where we caught the shore crabs last Sunday, I spotted a flash of bright yellow amid the leaf litter off to one side of the path.
On further investigation, my hopes were confirmed - it was a little patch of Chanterelles.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
By Mike on Sunday, July 15, 2007, 21:59
We went crabbing down at the pontoon at Manor Farm Country Park and brought back a bucket of shore crabs to make soup.
Monday, June 4, 2007
By Mike on Monday, June 4, 2007, 21:39
June 04 2007 - kids have a day off school today, so we piled into the car and drove up to Oxford, where the river Thames is suffering from an invasion of foreign crayfish - the American Signal Crayfish - which is not only out-competing our native crayfish, but acts as carrier for a disease that kills the native crustaceans.
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