Roots and All - Gardening Podcast Episode 246: Urban Smallholding
My guest this episode is urban smallholder Sara Ward. Sara runs Hen Corner, a backyard smallholding in London. Her website Hen Corner has a wealth of information on growing and making food, she runs courses, sells products from her bakery and has just published a book ‘Living the Good Life in the City’. I began by asking Sara what prompted her to follow in the wellieprints of Barbara Good.
Dr Ian Bedford’s Bug of the Week: Gardening for Nature
What We Talk About
What prompted Sara to set up Hen Corner
How much can you grow in your average urban garden?
Keeping animals
Getting rid of waste from the garden
Preserving food
Looking after things when you're away
About Living the Good Life in the City
Sara Ward has transformed her Victorian terraced house in London into an urban smallholding, ‘Hen Corner’, and in Living the Good Life in the City she shares some of the ways she and her family have brought city and country together, and shows that you, too, can make a difference to how you live and the food you eat.
Divided into sections covering Make, Grow, Preserve, Keep and Celebrate, Living the Good Life in the City is packed full of recipes, stories, tips and tricks including baking
bread, making your own jam, pasta, sausages and cheese, keeping bees and livestock, preserving, foraging, harvesting and celebrating with food.
Links
Living the Good Life in the City by Sara Ward - Pimpernel Press, July 2023
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