<p class="">In this Exmoor Lockdown Diary Martin Hesp hosts a podcast which is all about the delicious subject of cheese</p>

<p class="">In today’s Exmoor Lockdown Diary Martin describes how to make pea, nettle and wild garlic risotto - plus he adds a video of his gardening technique </p>

<p class="">In this Exmoor Lockdown Diary Martin revisits the subject of wild garlic after so many people contacted him</p>

<p class="">In this lockdown diary Martin Hesp discusses the art and the delights of making your own sourdough bread </p>

<p class="">In this Exmoor Lockdown Diary Martin puts together a podcast in which he visits one of the UK’s top garlic growers, he visits the “happiest village in England” and he calls in to see a famous potter called John Leach</p>

<p class="">In another Exmoor Lockdown Diary, Martin learns how to forage for wild food in an estuary</p>

<p class="">Foraging for wild food in springtime is a good idea during the lockdown IF - <strong>and only if</strong> - you live in the countryside and can walk out into unpopulated areas locally to find the right plants</p>

<p class="">In the latest Exmoor Lockdown Diary, Martin talks about the importance of locally produced food - he’s been writing about it for years but the subject is really coming into its own right now</p>

<p class="">As we all worry about food scarcity during the lockdown you have to envy those who keep chickens - or who live near enough to buy fresh eggs from their country neighbours</p>

<p class="">Exmoor Lockdown Diary 2 - the wonders of wild garlic - finding food in a crisis</p>

<p class="">A stay at the Thurlestone Hotel in the South Hams, on the Devon coast</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Quick photographic tour around Saigon, or Ho Chi Min City</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Spending a day and a night in one of Vietnam’s most historic ports </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">After the heavy meals of the Christmas period some healthy vegetable </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Enjoying a day out in Funchal, capital city of Madeira</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">It might sound crazy to cook on a beach in midwinter - but a day out with Devon’s Dan the Fishman is just what’s needed to blow away the Christmas cobwebs</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This page is all about the annual Cutcombe Christmas Fatstock Show which takes place in the heart of Exmoor National Park every December</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">An exploration of St Martins - known as the Caribbean’s Friendly Isle</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Grass fed Exmoor lamb is now being promoted across the national park area and beyond - this article explains why</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A century ago local families would buy 100 herrings for six old pence (2.5pence) to salt down for the winter. But catches gradually declined and during the 1970s the herring all but disappeared, with the blame laid on over-fishing in the Atlantic and North Sea.</p>