It’s apple picking season. This time of year is full of reminders of my lovely mother, who, together with Dad, planned and planted our family orchard, and loved harvest time. She would have been eighty last week, so this year is a particularly poignant one. Cornwall is full of small producers. There are organic farms […]
Society is a great consumer. But what do we do with the waste?
At one time landfill was a problem; increasingly large swathes of lands were needed, with all the ensuing problems of methane leakage and forever plastics. When landfill sites were full to capacity, rather than tackling the problem holistically (what can we do to reduce waste?) we sidestepped and introduced waste incinerators. These incinerators currently provide […]
All about apples – a poem in celebration of my wonderful Mum
A poem for Mum, who would have turned 80 on Wednesday 2nd October. Kerensa Aval Sometimes when I press apples it is your hands I see scooping chopped pips and flesh, picking wasps from juice soaked cloth, filling yellow buckets with pulp for the cows. Just as I hear your voice at picking time, hat […]