Sally Vincent’s Diary of Food and Life on a Devon Farm.

  • Plums Plums Plums!

    As torrential rain washes away the last remnants of summer so the remains of this years’ bumper crop of plums moulder and fall to the ground. But not before we have managed to gather bucket loads. It has been a wonderful year for all fruit in the garden despite the weather and the plums have…

  • High Summer and Favourite Cookbooks

    The lambs are nearly as big as the ewes now. Big sturdy boys and girls graze beside their mothers, occasionally toppling them, as they push for the last drops of milk. Soon we will bring them all down from the hill into the yard to be sprayed for fly strike, the curse of these warm,…

  • Summer at Last

    Soft rain is falling, the perfect pick-me-up for a sun scorched garden. Flowers turn their heads upwards drinking in the refreshing draft. Petals glisten, trees drip, tiny spiders’ webs catch the rain drops on the grass shedding a strange haze across the lawn. The first strawberries glisten in the fruit cage, sweet peas waft scent…

  • My Movie garden May from Paul Vincent on Vimeo.

  • The Garden April 2015

    Bramble Torre Garden April 2015 from Paul Vincent on Vimeo.

  • Food for Thought

    Restored, retrieved, recouped, Raining Sideways is back! For some time www.rainingsideways.com has been inaccessible, vanished, gone, mysteriously replaced with the word “Forbidden” in large letters. Panic, had I really lost eleven years of work in one single blow? My imagination ran riot. I had just had lunch with a writer friend who, like me, had…