• National Permaculture Convergence 2018

    Ed Tyler and I delivered a workshop on Bioregional thinking at the 2018 National Permaculture Convergence, which took place in Hulme, Manchester last weekend. The session was well attended and enthusiastically received which was a relief after all the stressing out and prep I did beforehand. I didn’t manage to cover everything I wanted to…

  • Eastern Region Permaculture Gathering

    Next weekend is the Eastern Region Permaculture Gathering in Norfolk, where I’ll be presenting a workshop on Bioregionalism. I launched Managed Retreat at the first Eastern Region Permaculture Gathering, so in many ways this will be an update on how on my thinking has developed since then. It’s also an opportunity to shine more light on…

  • MAD about Bees

    MAD about Bees

    Last weekend Claire and I attended a beekeeping taster workshop in Ulting run by the Maldon and Dengie 100 Beekeepers. We already have a hive (bee-less) and made contact with Peter Davison, who oversees of the management of the Divisional Apiary based at the Arcadia Road Allotment Site. The taster workshop is designed to give would…

  • Refill Burnham & The Plastic Problem

    I just attended the launch event for the ‘Refill Burnham & The Plastic Problem’ exhibition at Burnham-On-Crouch & District Museum opened today by town mayor Wendy Stamp and councillor Vanessa Bell. It’s an exhibition about both problems and solutions.

  • Dark Horse

    It was great to catch the Dark Horse Morris group from Maldon at the Queen’s Head pub in Burnham last night. It couldn’t me more convenient for us (that’s our house peering over the ivy in the photo above).

  • A forest of raspberry canes

    As part of the research I’ve been doing into the local history of fruit production, I came across William J. Tate’s 1899 book East Coast Scenery: Rambles Through Towns and Villages; Nutting, Blackberrying, and Mushrooming; Sea Fishing, Wild-fowl Shooting etc. which was apparently illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The book is a collection of articles contributed to…

  • Dengie Hundred

    ‘Has been the scene of some important events in the history of the nation, but in ages so remote that there is no written record to identify them with the locality; and in traversing the district, we find few of those ancient relics by the aid of which their memorials may be traced out. On…

  • Orchards East

    I have just signed up as a volunteer on the Orchards East project – I will be researching the history of orchards in my local parish of Burnham-on-Crouch. I’ve been provided with an OS map of the parish marked with the locations of orchards identified on the c.1888 ordnance survey map. My first task is…

  • Minefield Control Tower, Holiwell Point 

    Last year I nominated the Minefield Control Tower at Holiwell Point as a site for an artistic intervention as part of

  • Bioregioning: Ed Tyler

    Permaculturalist Ed Tyler has been exploring bioregional action and thought up on his own peninsula in Kintyre. With the name of his blog he has coined a new word for the re-inhabitation lexicon: bioregioning. He goes on to define the word on the blog About page. Bioregioning: from verb “to bioregion”; act of bringing your…