Honey Week

October 2015 From the 23rd to the 31st October, Britain celebrated National Honey Week. Organised by the Bee Keepers Association, it was a chance to celebrate honey and its uses, as well as reflecting on the plight of the honey …

Coconuts – The ‘Tree of Life’ from the Indo-Pacific

July 2015 As a child, coconuts were an ingredient in sweets and baking, or a thing of the fairground coconut shy and bird feeders. In my youth, oil was a holiday essential for hair and skin. As a saturated fat it …