Hello! We’re Kathy and Tom and welcome to The Seasonal Table. This is our journal of slow food and sustainable living.
We live on a smallholding - the English version of a homestead - in the hills of rural Somerset with our two children. On our two(ish) acres of land are a tubby gaggle of geese, a small flock of sheep, thousands of honeybees, and a collection of chickens who lay eggs that could colour a rainbow. There is a mixed fruit orchard and an ever-expanding vegetable patch too. And we’re semi off-grid, thanks to our solar panels and wood burning stoves.
Our lifestyle is centred around slow food and simple living, which somewhat ironically, means we are endlessly – but happily – busy. There is always something to sow or harvest, cook or preserve, make or build. We manage the smallholding organically, embracing traditional practices, but also bringing in contemporary ideas and technology where we feel they are sustainable and useful. Our aim is to be as self-sufficient as possible and what we don’t produce or forage ourselves, we source as locally and greenly as we can.
If you sign up as a free subscriber, you will be sent our quarterly newsletter, The Seasonal Supplement, where we share our snippets from our journal that don’t make it into our longer articles. Expect smallholding stories; scribbled recipes and cooking notes; enthusiastic suggestions for things to grow; recommendations of the occasional inspiring read, podcast or programme; and a peek at our never-ending to do list. We’ll cover everything from growing apples and harvesting honey, to foraging for wild ingredients, building woodstores, and harnessing green energy. The newsletter will be delivered to your inbox bright and early one Sunday morning a season, just in time to be enjoyed with a piping hot cup of tea (or whatever your morning beverage of choice is).
We also write occasionally for other publications, and you can find our columns and features in previous issues of BBC Countryfile magazine and The Simple Things magazine. You can also follow us here:
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