A Warm Welcome
England, Naturally is a pretty site packed with over 1000 short but sweet posts, profiling fabulous finds across our green & pleasant land. Everything is plant-based, zero-waste, fairly-made and (mostly) local!
From recipes and food brands to zero-waste gifts, from good books to innovative inventions. You will also find helpful information posts along the way.
You are sure to find something to inspire! In essence, everything profiled (together) is centred around:
- Claiming back green spaces
- Community volunteering
- Rescuing animal friends of all kinds
- Becoming litter-free!
- Helping to protect our seas
- Support small indies (shops, farmers etc)
- Independent, positive and fair media
- Learning to DIY everything (almost!)
- Simpler living and nature wonder
- Veggie recipes (and zero waste food)
Words to Inspire
Village fetes, country lanes, people saying ‘mustn’t grumble’, beans on toast, haymaking in June, stinging nettles, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, crumpets, hot water bottles and drizzly Sundays. American Bill Bryson (on what he loves about England)
Sometimes I come across a tree: giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbours, leaves to the soil. Asking nothing in return. The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my poem and my prayer. Satish Kumar
Rural pubs are disappearing, leaving many villages bereft not of a place to drink, and focus for community. French poet Hilaire Belloc wrote ‘When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves. For you will have lost the last of England’ Paul Kingsnorth
The global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground, on the other side of the world. George Monbiot