A UK study found that people throw away seven times their own body weight each year. Except of course none of it ever really goes away. Some of it builds up in landfills, creating methane that worsens climate change.

Some families split over political parties or religious faith. Mine split over beetroots

In this time of year, when gardeners are planning next year’s garden, think about trying chicory

This remains one of the most effective and efficient ways of preserving food through the winter

We will always have horses and they will always need shoes

 'I lost a daughter, and miss her. I realise, though, that I had many treasured years with her, and they will never be undone'

THESE days, you spend your life paying off a house, and even building a shed or animal shelter can be expensive, as timber, brick or any other modern building material requires a heavy investment of money, time and skilled labour.

Today we are hyper-sensitive to white supremacy, yet modern people show an even more radical and sweeping temporal supremacy, the belief that all the generations before us were inferior in every way

The taste is recognisably butter, but with an umami flavour, a bit like parmesan or ripe cheese

A good root soup can warm and nourish on a winter day

These organisations were deeply woven into community life for centuries

Most of that landscape was felled for timber and paper long ago, the land given over to crops and suburbia – or to wasteland