About the Author

Hello! This picture is me…I have two sides. They go something like this: I-like-makeup-and-fashion-although-I’m-rubbish-at-shopping and a-bit-of-a-farm-girl.

I’m Lucy. I’m 27 and being a vegetarian, I love vegetables. So I have decided to try and grow lots of them to eat. I love animals too, that’s partly (not completely) the reason why I can’t eat them! I have also grown to love gardening, garden design, flowers and since of about the age of 5, I’ve been into all things ‘green’ and wildlife-orientated. At school I was very english, theatre and art orientated, and went on to belatedly study graphic design at university. At present I freelance copywrite and am trying to start up a couple of websites that will hopefully grow into palpable businesses in due course. I still love design, but in a more ‘organic’ tangible and natural sense, rather than your straight advertising and print. But despite what you might think, I’m not a hippy. I don’t wear potato sacks and birkenstocks and I don’t dye my hair with henna. But I don’t know many people my age that like the things that I do, and sometimes that’s where the difficulty lies. What other 27 year old wants a barrow for their birthday (disclaimer: and no, the picture is in no way indicative of my design skills!)?!

I am a Beatles obsessive, and this is reflected in the fact that I have named my hens after some Beatle wives (and for those of you that care to ask, my favourite Beatle has always been John!). I love going out to dance - Rich finds it quite embarrassing - reading, writing, photography, stupid films, fantasy TV series like Alias and Heroes, but also have a ‘thing’ for Monty Don on Gardener’s World. I am way too interested in the world of Harry Potter - books, films, You Tube community, the music…it’s fantastic! I was even an extra on Batman Begins, and managed to get filmed in a scene on my own with another guy, as well as being allowed to have a ride in the then new batmobile. That’s about the extent of my high-flying glitter glam acting career.

Sometimes it’s really quite confusing being me. One minute it’s nice hair, nailpolish, and sparkly cardigans, the next it’s Nannie’s cable-knit jumpers, soil, wellies and veg. Makes life a bit more varied I suppose. I want to prove that you can do both - farming, veg growing and living the good life can be in vogue as well as fulfilling.

Anyhow, as you might expect, this is my blog charting the highs and lows of my attempt to turn our little patch into a successful and thriving ’smallest smallholding’. I hope you enjoy reading it.