Josh's blog

How can you tell the time with the natural world? Using the environment around us we can actually get pretty good. I’m outside most days in my spar...

Summer arrived and so did the heat and rain. Which can only boost the life around us. For me, the month of June has been about looking at flowers a...

The garden is full of life, especially since it looks overgrown at this time of year even with regular maintenance. Giving grass and verges the tim...

Spring is here and all the delights of colour are back. I’m looking at fields of fresh grass, big yellow dandelions, delicate forget me not, primro...

Matching up the end of winter to the new season of spring gives me a feeling of nature celebrating the triumph of surviving the winter. We’re now s...

Times of change are here with the morning getting lighter but also politically, with Europe working together with greater urgency, coming together ...

A cold January day is often quieter than the summer months without the buzz of life everywhere, but this is a chance to enjoy species that make the...

The trial and errors are different for everyone, some people are focused on locally made, others for shopping plastic free. I began with a few bits in the kitchen like glass jars, wooden dish brush and buying a few organic products.

December arrives and winter starts with us getting ready for our very first christmas market this year!  We’re looking forward to showing McGowan R...

At McGowan Realm, you may have seen the Christmas page is now up and running. We’re hoping to show off our products that we sell throughout the yea...

As we reach out for more sustainability, I thought I would include some of our values this month, as I plan to display the same message on our McGo...

In the fields as I drive past most days and evenings they have been in full harvest with machinery and bales on the move. In late summer our busine...