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  • Recipe: How to Make a Vegan Creamy Cauliflower Soup
    Food and Recipes

    Recipe: How to Make a Vegan Creamy Cauliflower Soup

    ByHeather May 27, 2025June 7, 2025

    Are you looking for a nourishing, healthy soup? Whether you’re vegan or not, this creamy cauliflower soup is filling and packed with essential nutrients. I guarantee it will be a hit with the whole family. You need to add this to your meal rotation! If you’re on the lookout for a new lunch option, then…

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  • Vegan fishy pie, served with a green salad. Photographed in the worktop of a farmhouse kitchen, in front of a woodburning range.
    Food and Recipes

    Recipe: How to Make a Vegan Fishy Pie

    ByHeather April 29, 2025April 30, 2025

    Are you looking for a nourishing, delicious, whole-foods, plant-based dinner option? Then look no further, because my vegan fishy pie ticks ALL the boxes. You NEED to learn how to make this recipe! There are so many more plant-based alternatives to animal products now than when I first went vegan, almost 10 years ago. These…

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  • Colorful produce aisle in a supermarket showcasing commercially grown fruit and vegetables with discount signage.
    Food and Recipes | Gardening

    What is Wrong with Commercial Fruit and Vegetables, Anyway?

    ByHeather April 1, 2025April 3, 2025

    We live in a time where food is more abundant than ever. Supermarkets are full to overflowing with any type of produce you could possibly want. You can eat strawberries at Christmas and oranges all year round, if you so desire. Why then, have I prioritised growing my own fruits and vegetables? Would I not…

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  • Red lentil tofu set in a Pyrex container. Some of the tofu has been cut into squares and placed in a cast iron skillet. The container and skillet are on the worktop of a farmhouse kitchen, in front of a wood-burning range.
    Food and Recipes

    Recipe: How to Make Lentil Tofu

    ByHeather March 25, 2025April 15, 2025

    Are you looking to pack some more protein into your plant-based diet? Are you fed up of ultra-processed meat alternatives, and looking for something more wholesome and sustaining? Then you absolutely need to know how to make lentil tofu! First and foremost, I cannot take credit for this idea. I saw this YouTube video about…

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  • Three bowls of freshly made, creamy broccoli soup with fresh sourdough bread, situated in front of a wood burning range in a farmhouse kitchen.
    Food and Recipes

    Recipe: Creamy Broccoli Soup

    ByHeather January 28, 2025January 28, 2025

    Are you after a nourishing, healthy, warming soup recipe? Then look no further! This delicious, sustaining, creamy broccoli soup is sure to tick all the boxes! Recipe Serves 6 | Prep time: 10 minutes | Cooking time: 1 hour Ingredients Method

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  • Piece of foiled Christmas wrapping paper on a compost heap.
    Food and Recipes | Simple Living & Minimalism

    Sustainability at Christmas

    ByHeather December 3, 2024December 2, 2024

    Christmas has become synonymous with excess and materialism in today’s society. And that sadly generates huge amounts of waste and a significant impact on the environment. Are you keen to strip consumerism out of the festive period? Would you like to shift the focus to quality time rather than meaningless gifts this Christmas? Here are…

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  • Dinner plates containing fish-less cakes and seasonal veg, positioned in front of a wood-burning range cooker in a farmhouse kitchen
    Food and Recipes

    Recipe: How to Make “Fish-less” Cakes

    ByHeather November 26, 2024March 27, 2025

    Are you looking for simple, protein-packed, nourishing vegetarian dinner ideas? These fish-less cakes are delicious and full of goodness. They are sure to go down well with the entire family! These fish-less cakes are loaded with plant-based protein, iodine and other essential micronutrients. They are full of flavour with a wonderful contrast between the creamy…

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  • Two dinner plates pictured in a farmhouse kitchen before a woodburning range cooker. Each plate contains a serving of vegetarian mince and tatties with seasonal green vegetables.
    Food and Recipes | Home-making

    From Scratch Cooking: How to Serve Up Three Home-Cooked Meals Every Day!

    ByHeather November 19, 2024November 18, 2024

    Are you trying to fuel your family with healthy, home-cooked food? Are you wondering how to find the time to dish up three wholesome meals every day? Then look no further! Here’s how I manage it. Appraise Your Current Routine If you aspire to create three home-cooked meals every day, but you’re currently struggling to…

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  • Freshly baked sourdough bread and homemade almond croissants, on a cooling rack in front of a wood-burning range in a farmhouse kitchen
    Food and Recipes | Home-making

    Working Towards Self-Sufficiency: 10 Food Items I No Longer Buy

    ByHeather November 12, 2024November 8, 2024

    Are you trying to make more of your meals from scratch? Maybe you’re interested in producing your own food and eating more seasonally? Here on the smallholding, eating freshly prepared food, made with seasonal home-grown ingredients is the main objective! Home-grown, freshly cooked food tastes so much better, it creates very little waste and there…

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  • A farmhouse kitchen. Dinner plates holding a home-cooked meal situated in front of a wood-burning range cooker.
    Food and Recipes

    Recipe: Vegetarian Fruit and Nut Burgers

    ByHeather October 29, 2024October 31, 2024

    Are you looking for a quick and nutritious vegetarian dinner idea? Are you looking to pack some extra protein into your plant-based meal plan? Then these delicious “fruit and nut” burgers are for you! One of the biggest challenges about going plant-based was finding enough nourishing replacements for the standard “meat and two veg” British…

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Hi, I'm Heather!

I am a busy wife, mother, smallholder, knitter and spinner. Join me as I share my tips for simple living, meals lovingly made with home-grown ingredients, and crafty home-making.

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