Growing your own food is they key to health and happiness

I have a friend who is a gifted gardener. Her focus is on growing food to eat. She has neatly laid out plots and a productive polytunnel which allows her to continue gardening in the worst of weathers.

Eating at her house is always a rare pleasure. If she feels something is missing from the meal, she simply dashes outside and digs it up.

Of course, like any gardener, she has her frustrations. Marauding slugs, and hungry rabbits and a sun that simply refuses to shine when it is most needed. And of course, gardening can be very labour intensive.