THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Gilding the Lily: Inside the Cut Flower Industry by Amy Stewart is about the life of a cut flower before it …
Logs – Modern Mint
Autumn is arriving and nights are getting colder, so we need to start thinking about logs for the fire. Why you should use logs from Modern Mint… The logs we offer are guaranteed to have been seasoned for 1 year, with a low moisture content. All logs are sourced from the UK – Essex, South London, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire. Buying logs from Modern Mint (and so from the UK) helps support work in native woodlands. Contact us now for prices! What are the best logs to use for your fire? In the words of ‘Woodsman’ Ben Law, you need …
NGS Sissinghurst
Earlier in the year we visited Sissinghurst, when they opened for the NGS scheme at 6am on a Sunday morning. It was brilliant to be there so early and we had the chance to talk with new(ish) head gardener Troy Scott Smith about how they are trying to ‘revitalise Vita’. The garden has changed a lot over the years, which is a good thing, but has lost a little of the ‘fine carelessness’ that drove the making of the garden. It is now the job of Troy and his team to bring a little of that chaos and looseness back …
Sepp Holzer
Sepp Holzer (who wrote this book Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture) is an Austrian farmer, who until recently farmed the Kramertehof – 45 hectares of land 1500m above sea level. He is known as a guru of Permaculture. Although it seems the methods he follows are similar in philosophy to those of permaculture – to live lightly on the land, to garden with instead of in opposition to nature – he has very much developed his own interpretation of how to grow food, keep livestock and earn a living off his land. Here is Sepp Holzer on video – though it is …