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Newsletter · By Chloe Edwards · English · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 20, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    Thoughts From Hope’s Kitchen (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    Each morning this week, when arriving at work I have been met by a cloud of sparrows flying up out of my raised beds and onto the long barn roof. Each time I leave the kitchen they fly up from whichever spot they have been inhabiting, scavenging for seeds and bugs. It’s made me feel like a Disney princess, labouring like a good daughter in the kitchen, coming out into the yard to don my animated halo of blue birds, or little brown and black sparrows, this being the form they take in rural Sussex

  2. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    Words from Hope’s Kitchen (opens the original)

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    Tomorrow is the first of September and with the change in the weather over recent days, suddenly what was reading as scorched leaves in the trees and grass on the roadside is looking like a fast forward into autumn. The element of the new landscape that causes the most disconnection with past frames of reference is the new green growth that has shot up beneath the closely shorn hay in the fields, but what a relief that must be for grazing herds of sheep, cattle, goats, horses and most other wild

  3. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    Local Produce Markets Can Heal Communities (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 17, 2026

    Hope Stitches Love Into Society (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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    Cooking is an intense activity for me at the moment in all this heat, as I am sure it is for most people. It is leaving me with little joy or energy in the pursuit of writing about it, but I am enjoying ingredients a lot and how much they give at this time of year – such colour, variety of texture, flavour and form. As always in August tomatoes are my life blood, so sweet and vibrant and so varied these days with the return of many heritage varieties to markets and organic vegetable boxes. I am

  5. Issue · Jul 31, 2026

    The Joy & Privilege of Holidaying in the Same Place Always (opens the original)

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