The garden of earthly delights
At one end of the garden older brother Harry is demonstrating a long bamboo stick with a tomato stuck on the end. He explains that he’s strength-testing the chickens’ beaks with this piece of apparatus: the explosion of tomato is proportionate to the strength of the beak. It becomes very clear that, apart from their egg-laying and garden weeding roles, these chickens are integral members of the family.
The garden, in which this early physics lesson is playing out, is no ordinary backyard; it is the organic kitchen garden for the much acclaimed restaurant the Salopian Inn. The boys’ mother, Karena Armstrong, calls herself the Inn’s Managing Director of Culinary Delights. When she couldn’t
