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Dig the dirt

For many people reading this, there is nothing alluring about soil, not even the sweet, consistency-of-crumbled-chocolate-cake organic variety. Like a jolly good pair of wellington boots, you can’t sex it up either. The idea of plunging a hand into tilled soil, deeply inhaling its richness and marvelling at the worms   More →

Milking it

Two glasses of cold, fresh, full-cream cow’s milk. Around the base of each one, fat drops of condensation bulge and fall. To the naked eye, the contents of both glasses appear to be exactly the same; they are both the colour of translucent, fine-bone china. Appearances aside, these glasses are in fact worlds apart. The milk in one derives from a wide range of dairy   More →