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• Birding at Mother’s Garden – June 2011
  on Jun 24, 2011 in birding butterflies spain mother's garden wildlife
  The joy of swimming in the farm reservoir while the Sand Martins and Swallows swoop to drink around our heads has to be balanced with the droppings hitting the sheets on the washing line. Maybe we need to move the line! Another question is how long w...
• Mother’s Garden olive oil comes to Cornwall
  on Jun 5, 2011 in Bulk olive oil Great value olive oil Uncategorized aprons mother's garden spain Cornwall Cornwall olive oil extra virgin olive oil living abroad
  Fresh Mother’s Garden arbequina olive oil is now in Cornwall! Our friends and colleagues Tamsin and Andy Glendinning – who have been helping on the farm this year – will be flying the Mother’s Garden flag at events throughout...
• Snake bite, bee stings and bales of hay
  on Jun 2, 2011 in farm living abroad spain catalonia mother's garden wildlife
  The striped lizard zipped up to the plateau of the waist-high olive tree stump and looked down at our dogs.  Delirious, their noses fizzing with the scents of awakening life, the nutty hounds clawed at the earth and roots. Content in the knowledge t...
• Mother’s Garden at Malton Festival, Yorkshire
  on May 18, 2011 in Food festival Great value olive oil New harvest olive oil Uncategorized mother's garden Delia Cheat Ingredient extra virgin olive oil spain
  Calling Yorkshire! Mother’s Garden will be at the Malton Food Lovers Festival this weekend (May 21-22) , so come along and try some olives, taste some fresh olive oil and meet Tina, our friend and north of England organiser. Tina Boden, from Sc...
• Maggie’s Mother’s Garden flower essences
  on May 16, 2011 in Nature Uncategorized mother's garden spain Bach flower essences living abroad
  Last summer Maggie began making flower essence remedies for the small, independent English flower essence company Creature Comforters. As the name implies, these are remedies for pets, but also for people. We are creatures too,  after all. The Crome...
• Birding at Mother’s Garden – May 2011
  on May 14, 2011 in birding spain mother's garden
  The Mother’s Garden bird family is together again – and more. Life abounds in lush, loud May. The chestnut-capped Woodchat Shrike has returned, and flew back and forth in front of the tractor to boldy announce “I’m here”...
• Record sales for April fresh olive oil shipment
  on Apr 27, 2011 in Bulk olive oil New harvest olive oil olive oil extra virgin olive oil mother's garden online shop spain
  Our April shipment of 92×5litres, 24×2litres and 102×500ml glass bottles has sold out in record time! Thank you to all our customers across Britain -  we will be back in the mill next week organising bottling for a May pallet, so plac...
• Mother’s Garden is as green as the Emerald Isle
  on Apr 25, 2011 in Garden living abroad mother's garden spain catalonia
  What does it really mean to live in clover – a care-free life of ease, comfort and financial prosperity? These elude us – ha! – although we are happily knee-deep in the emblem of the distant Emerald Isle. Life is bursting forth in all d...
• It is the season of song (and mirth)
  on Apr 25, 2011 in Garden Nature Uncategorized living abroad mother's garden spain catalonia
  Come for a springtime dawn walk with me at Mother’s Garden, our four hectares of ecological hues that imbue the spirit with hope, and you can listen to the birds and to me murdering some celebrated musical hits. I can’t help it. We are all emotio...
• And who will tell the bees?
  on Apr 1, 2011 in Nature birding living abroad mother's garden spain bees catalonia martin kirby Mozambique wild flowers wildlife
  Señor Juan, the gentle grower of so much goodness, has gone.  Who will tell the bees? It is five Easters since Juan gifted us two humming hives and a pair of persimmon saplings. Or is it six? There are too many years to remember. He’d walked me u...

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