HeyJaredHuw Richards
Welcome to my Substack, a place where I explore how to grow the best ingredients whilst working alongside nature. This is my ideas playground, so have fun!
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Why I Won’t Stop Challenging How We Use Compost (opens the original)
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Rethink: Are We Making Our Gardens Too Complicated? (opens the original)
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This is part of my Rethink series, where I question some of the assumptions, traditions and methods us gardeners use.I ask the simple question: is there a better way than what is currently done?And this time, I want to question something that I have spent much of my gardening life encouraging:Diversity.A limit on diversityWe are constantly
Rethink: Are We Wasting Our Garden Paths? (opens the original)
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This is part of my new Rethink series here on Substack where I question some of the core assumptions and traditions we inherit as gardeners. I ask whether the way we have always done something is actually what is best for our own garden, taking into account that we all have different goals and spaces. I ask the simple question: is there a better way?In the previous article in this series, I asked whether we should be growing more winter vegetables in our gardens. I explored what happens if we de
When I Was Wrong About Flowers (opens the original)
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Somewhere on YouTube sits a video I filmed many years ago, where I remember proudly stating: what’s the point of growing flowers if you can’t eat them?Obviously, I wasn’t including nasturtiums.At the time, I was quite adamant that growing flowers was a bit of a waste of time when, really, you should be growing as much food as possible. I realise now tha… Read more
5 Things I’m Changing After the Toughest Growing Season Yet (opens the original)
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Goodness me, what a challenging season this has been! It has been one that I’d be so tempted to forget. However, like all difficult things I have to force myself to look at the positives and pick out what lessons can be learnt.I had shudders writing that sentence because it just reminds me of all my school teachers, but they are right here. I’m all abou… Read more
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