About / What’s on offer

I am a trained carpenter and landscaper, and I recently moved with my cocker spaniel Olive into a shack on Seasalter beach near Whitstable on the Kent Coast. I offered to look after my neighbour’s vegetable plot (while she is locked down in London), and I have just planted red cabbage, cauliflower, leek, parsnip and climbing bean seeds. I don’t have much experience in growing vegetables by the sea (very salty air, obviously) so this is definitely going to be a ‘let’s see what happens’ experience!

Each week I will be sending a ‘vegetable patch report’: what’s surviving, what’s thriving (and what’s hit the salty rocks!).

Almost every day Olive and I walk along the coast and the salt marshes behind it, always with my binoculars. So I will be documenting these coastal meanders with the skylarks and starlings and sleek grey seals…The idea is to immerse the listener in our surroundings, describing all that can be seen, heard and even smelt! It’s a gentle narration of the seascape and countryside in East Kent that (hopefully) makes the listener feel like they are walking alongside us.

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