OK so what NEW skills are you hoping to pick up this year?

[preservefreak]

a couple of my friends are getting a hive next year so the three of us are doing a beginners bee keeping course this September so I can help out with the hive if they have to go away for a time in exchange for a share of the honey for another batch of mead.

I'll also be doing more jam and pickle making as well as bottling some fruit for the first time. I'd like to try cold smoking some fish when it cools down as well.

The OH and myself are trying to learn some herbalism this year. And I need to make some more time to practice making fire this year as I'm still pretty poor at it.

And the container garden is a learning exercise itself.