Let’s eat!

March 12, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

For the story so far click here

To be continued ….

Great planters

March 11, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Click here for the story so far

To be continued …

Startled

March 9, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

No, really, BEWARE OF THE OGRE!!!

March 8, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Lurking in the shadows

March 7, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

BEWARE OF THE OGRE!

March 6, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

A Life Less Ordinary

March 5, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

The first episode of Itchycoo Park is here at last. This eccentric story is for little ones so after today you’ll be able to find it on the 2 and up page. Click on the pic to take a look 🙂

TICK TOCK

March 4, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Wait!

March 3, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Itchycoo Park

New comic for little ones

Coming very soon!

😀

Make some sugar-free jam – you know you want to!

March 2, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

If you want jam but not sugar (nor other added sweetener either) then this is the recipe for you!

In the inventor’s own words “This recipe for strawberry jam does take some time to make in the absence of sugar or a natural sweetener, but the end result is pure strawberry goodness. It is definitely sweet enough and has an amazing buttery smooth and creamy consistency. I guarantee that if you like fresh strawberries, you will love this recipe.”

So go on, pop over to this website – Living Healthy with Chocolate dot com – and give it a go!

I know I’m going to! 🙂

Don’t forget to wave

February 27, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Prompted by our new and exciting interest in growing our food we’ve found something garden-related for you to enjoy 🙂

And if, after that, you’re feeling inspired, as we are, to indulge in some forest gardening, take a look at this gem of a blog I found yesterday – Of Plums and Pignuts – it’s choc full of inspiration. This post in particular gives you that “anything’s possible” excitement that makes you want to just get out there and do it! 😉

Please look after this bear

February 26, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Please look after these bears

The Wombles – Rubbish Collectors & Recyclers Extraordinaire!

February 25, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Forest Gardening

February 21, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening

I have a mini-forest in my back garden. It represents a pioneer experiment in restoring a tiny segment of the primeval Long Forest, which once covered a wide area of the Shropshire Hills bioregion. Like the natural forest, it comprises a wide diversity of plants, occupying seven levels or ‘storeys’, but, unlike the natural forest, almost all its plants have been carefully chosen to meet human needs. It is, in fact, an attempt to create a model life-support system, which would enable a family or small community to achieve a considerable degree of self-sufficiency in basic necessities throughout the year, while enjoying health-giving exercise in a beautiful, unpolluted and stimulating environment. – Robert A de J Hart

Those who are concerned with the full implications of the ecological crisis which we now face generally agree that urgent steps should be taken to plant many millions of trees. …. It occurred to me that there was no reason why many of the desperately needed new trees should not be fruit-trees planted by the owners of town and suburban gardens, who would gain the bonus of growing nourishing food. If one could persuade 100 000 Londoners to plant just ten fruit-trees each, that would be a million trees – quite a forest!

That’s a great idea Robert! We don’t have a garden of our own, or any prospect of acquiring one, but we still want to join in! So we’ll just plant them in public places, places where we’ll be able to keep coming back to nurture our trees, and eventually to gather fruit from them, as will anyone else who wants to. 🙂

Grow your own apple trees

February 19, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

One day we caught the bus into the city and on the way, in the middle of nowhere, the bus stopped to pick someone up. Right next to the bus stop, on the wide grass verge, was a large apple tree. It was full of apples. An apple tree, in the middle of nowhere, by a bus stop, apparently not belonging to anyone. Free apples for anyone who chose to help themselves.

“How brilliant!” we thought. We should all plant fruit and nut trees at every opportunity, and provide free food for foragers. Food that will keep being produced year after year without any help from us.

So, we looked up how to grow an apple tree from seed (turns out there’s seed drying, seed damp-wrapping and seed cooling to be done, plus some weeks of waiting) and began 🙂

This was taken in January of our first seedling

And this is what it looks like now

So far we have 3 little apple trees going strong, all different varieties as advised on wikihow

It’s very exciting to watch them grow 😀

According to wikihow these trees, grown from seed, will be big (so we’ll have to carefully consider where we plant them) and it will probably be 10 years before they produce any fruit – but so what? We’re planting for the future, and that’s very cool! It doesn’t cost us anything and it’s a very positive thing to do. Why don’t you have a go? Here’s how

Fancy growing other types of tree from seeds you’ve collected? No problem – just look at this brilliant web page

UPDATES:

Look here to see how our little apple trees are doing 14 months later 🙂

And look at them now – after 2 and a quarter years 😀

And the year after that! (2017)

And in 2019!

Puddlesplashers

February 16, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Wetsox Puddlesplasher,

That is my name.

My job is important

But it feels like a game.

***

We clamber through ditches,

And sink in the mud.

We jump down from earth mounds

And land with a thud.

***

Soggybottom Puddlesplasher,

My close relation,

Is my partner at work,

This mucky vocation.

***

But that is no matter,

There’s no turning back.

We have to keep going,

And fill our sack,

With bottles and cans,

Some broken, some shredded,

That were dropped by the stupid,

The thoughtless, wrong-headed.

***

These everyday things,

Used once and tossed out,

Are dangerous now,

To the others about

Their business as usual,

Living their lives.

They step on a shredded can,

That cuts like knives.

They eat plastic pieces

Or cigarette butts,

Which hurt them as much,

As the broken glass cuts.

***

So our job is important

And we’ll always stay

Proud Puddlesplashers,

Day after day.

Here We Go Round The Shopping Mall

February 13, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

vegan nursery rhymes

All together now:

Here we go round the shopping mall,

The shopping mall, the shopping mall,

Here we go round the shopping mall

On a dirty, dusty morning.

***

This is the way we’re kicked about,

Knocked about, blown about,

This is the way we get about

On a cold and windy morning.

***

This is the way we go for a swim,

How we slip in, how we drop in,

This is the way we go for a swim

On a bright and blustery morning.

***

This is the way we float down stream,

We float down stream, we float down stream,

This is the way we float down stream

On a hot and sunny morning.

***

This is the way we go to sea,

We go to sea, we go to sea,

This is the way we go to sea

On a calm and cloudy morning.

***

This is the way we poison the life,

Strangle the life, entangle the life,

This is the way we choke the life

Out of each and every ocean.

***

Here we go round the ocean gyres,

The ocean gyres, the ocean gyres,

Here we go round the ocean gyres

For a hundred thousand mornings.

***

vegan nursery rhyme

Old MacDonald had a farm …

February 8, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

And on that farm he had no animals,

E-I-E-I-O

With a crop field here and a crop field there,

Here a crop, there a crop,

Everywhere a lot of crops.

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

****

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

And on that farm he grew some peas,

E-I-E-I-O

With snow peas here and chick peas there,

Yellow peas, maple peas,

Lovely green organic peas.

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

****

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

And on that farm he grew some beans,

E-I-E-I-O

With mung beans here and navy beans there,

Black beans, pinto beans,

Kidney beans and runner beans.

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

****

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

And on that farm he grew some greens,

E-I-E-I-O

With lettuces here and cabbages there,

Collard greens, spinach leaves,

Kale and chard and mustard greens.

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

****

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

And on that farm he grew good food,

E-I-E-I-O

With no animal slaves and no chemicals sprayed,

Healthy veg in healthy soil,

Bees and hedgerows thrived withal.

Old MacDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O

This little piggy …

February 7, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

This little piggy went to Oak Wood,

This little piggy tagged along.

This little piggy ate acorns,

This little piggy ate leaves.

And this little piggy went “wee wee wee” all the way to his mum.

All little piggies deserve to be free.

Let’s not eat them 😀

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vegan nursery rhymes

The goblin did it!

January 31, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

THE END … for now 🙂

If you want to read the whole story together, it is now here

Working together

January 30, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued ….

A little help

January 29, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Move!

January 28, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

On record

January 27, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Just checking

January 26, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Hazardous

January 25, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued ….

Whispers

January 24, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Crash!

January 23, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued ….

Next suspect?

January 21, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued ….

Focus

January 20, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Put it on your veggie burger!

January 18, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

What are you Flos?

January 17, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Megan & Flos will return after the commercial break 😉

Summum Esse

January 16, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Is that right?

January 15, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

This is it!

January 14, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Of all the industries …

January 13, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

I love your disguise!

January 12, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

Get your hat!

January 11, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued …

And so it begins … Megan & Flos episode 3

January 10, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To be continued ….

(By the way, if you’re wondering who Megan and Flos are and would like to know the story so far, pop over here and then here for the first two episodes.)

Be seeing you 😀

Violet’s Animal Quiz

January 9, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

This game is simple. You can play alone or with friend(s). All you have to do is turn over the question cards (play the videos 🙂 ) one at a time.

Either write down your answers (if you’re all answering the same question) or say your answer aloud (if you’re taking it in turns and only one of you is answering each question).

Then check the answer by turning the answer card for that particular question. If you got it right you get a point – someone should keep score 😉

The person with the most points at the end is the winner 🙂

By the way, I got all the information for this quiz from here, here, here, here and here so if you don’t know the answer and you don’t want to guess you can look it up

🙂

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(you can have a point if you get close to right answer on this one)

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That’s the lot for now, but we will continually add more questions so do come back and pick up where you left off 🙂

Appreciate the little things

January 7, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

😀

Save the Bees!

January 4, 2014

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Save the Bees!

Bees don’t just make honey, they are vital to life on earth, every year pollinating 90% of plants and crops and without immediate action, many of our favourite fruits, vegetables, and nuts could vanish from our shelves.

Recent years have seen a massive decline in bee populations around the world and some bee species are already extinct! A key EU agency is saying that toxic pesticides called neonicotinoids could be responsible for the bee deaths. The EU has banned three of these bee-killers, but giant chemical producers like Bayer and Syngenta continue to export their poison across the world.

Bumble Bee

Let’s get people power to counter the powerful pesticide lobby and save bees from extinction. Please sign the urgent petition to leaders around the world, and then share it as wide as you can.

Thank you 😉