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the road to vegan

Administrator — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:21:51 +0100

Guest Post for Manna by Kip, the Messy Vegetarian Cook

Vegetarianism hit me fast and hard at the age of twelve. I was attending an open day at the Maryland Department of Agriculture when it happened: whilst chewing on a sample of fish, I turned around only to come face to face with its brethren in a tank. I spit the fish into a serviette and have never since conceived of animals as a source of food.

It was at age 29 I realised why people became vegan. I felt bombaRead More...

it’s elderflower time

Administrator — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:55:15 +0100

Guest Post for Manna by Laura Porter

I love the idea of creating meals from foraging and harvesting nature but I’m far too much of an Urbanite to want to hang out in fields too often. But I heard a rumour that it was elderflower season, and I like St. Germain elderflower liqueur, so felt the need to try anRead More...

london calling

Administrator — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:16:52 +0100

Guest Post for Manna by Natasha Burge

It has been said that when a man tires of London, he tires of life, and I must wholeheartedly agree. Out of all the cities I have visited in my life, and there has been quite a few, London is by far and away my favorite. There is something magical about London, with its mixing of grand tradition and funky modernism, and its irresistible quirky sense of humor that is displayed in the architecture, the clothing style, and in the dry, side Read More...

give it a grow

Administrator — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:11:33 +0100

I'm an enthusiastic gardener each spring but when nothing grown, except weeds, I lose heart each summer. Nevertheless, I've sown veg seeds again this year: carrots, parsnips, spring onions, cabbage, etc - and I've diligently watered them daily and I have some incredible bindweed this year but not much else.

As a Londoner with limited garden space I felt inspired when I heard about the One Pot Pledge which is a campaign to get us to grow our own food in a garden pot. Read More...

mind your manna

Roger Swallow — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:14:06 +0100

What’s all the noise about?

How many times in the last forty + years have we screamed and yelled that something huge was happening? That we had woken up and figured out that there is killing going on under our satiated noses, that we are being fed a BIG lie by the corporate profit motive and the viral expansion of

our own greed that it represents…

Fresh from a world war we barely escaped but for our rationed childish impulses, lamenting such deprivation Read More...