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By Sindy Wakeham   You get it. You know WHY you may want to homestead or a cottage garden and live the ‘good life’. But WHERE is the best place to do that? Here’s the thing; A homestead (garden and home working toward providing SOMETHING for you and yours), can be whatever you want it to be! Where depends on a few options and possibilities. If you’re in the UK like me and my family, your first consideration is cost. Let’s face it; land of any size in the UK is priced at a premium. No point thinking about it until you know what space you have. Location wise, all southern parts of England and Wales are famous for being the best places, but I have seen fantastic edible gardens as far north as north-east Scotland and even some in Northern Ireland. In my Observations blog , I cover how you can observe your location and situation to inform the type of garden you grow. There are different ways of living a homesteading life in the UK and I’m going to suggest a few options. SMALL...

Part of Provident living By Sindy Wakeham How can any preparations done in and around the house be complete without the use of a garden? Have you ever lived on store cupboard food, on its own, for any amount of time, short or long? My family have, for a very short time! Not going to lie, to make basic store cupboard food thing that our pampered tastebuds can endure out of those kinds of basics, takes a lot of creativity and a VERY diverse collection of added ingredients! What are those basics and ‘added’ ingredients? I’ll be going into that in other articles and videos between both   blogs and YouTube channels; Blue Garden Cottage and Escaping the Dole with Sindy .  For now I’m concentrating on the importance of the garden as part of emergency and production and preservation of home grown produce. The Store Cupboard This week I've been focusing on the UK Government’s re-release or rather update of their Prepare website.  It encourages citizens to store 3 mont...