The City Cottage is a kind of Good Life Garden Centre. We run courses and training on all kinds of good life topics, beekeeping, chicken keeping, how to make sausages and so on.
We sell our books and materials and simply love our self sufficient lifestyle.
The City Cottage is about people growing their own food, and enjoying what they eat.
The basic steps to make simple cheese using yoghurt as a starter and rennet as a coagulant.
Honeybees make comb on man made frames and this video shows you how to make them
Handling and potting on tomatoes for their next stage of growth.
Moving from the small pots we transplanted them into grow bags ready for the next stage
A hot water crust Pork pie will feed a whole family of 6 for less than £5 with some left over!
A good set of tools should last you a lifetime, here’s how to choose them
Introducing bees at Brighton Grove allotments
Association of British Cooking
(in Desperate Dan Cow Pie)
Why making your own bread cheaper, tastier and better for you
Why not save a fortune, make your own special soaps to pamper and medicate? Make gifts that will really go down a treat. Bath time has never been so much fun.
In August we are putting on the following courses:
Cheese Making
Sausage Making
How to care for your hens
First Bees Course
New courses will be posted regularly so join the mailing list to be kept up to date
City Cottage Books cover the topics you need for self sufficiency, from gardening to cooking, keeping bees and hens
The City Cottage, Last Drop Hotel, Hospital Road, Bromley Cross,
Bolton, BL7 9PZ: Telephone 01204 597862
Bees
Thank you for a fantastic and insightful course last night; I really enjoyed the course and meeting you both!
No doubt we will see you again soon.
Kind regards and best of luck with the shop,
Caroline Whalley
Sausages
The whole room was concentrating like mad.
Donald Stewart
Stopping tomatoes, feeding vegetables, watch out for blight and news about The Edible Garden Show
From cheese making equipment to gardening tools and even seeds and plants, you can buy much more than courses!
