Asterion & Co. invites you to bring the green indoors — craft wreaths, paint your own seasonal botanicals Christmas card, all honouring Christmas traditions.

Heritage-Inspired Learning™ is Asterion & Co.’s signature way of sharing knowledge and experiences — taking the best of traditional skills, practices and aesthetics and pairing them with contemporary insights, techniques and thinking. It’s learning rooted in the wisdom of the past, yet shaped for the needs and creativity of today.

What do you go when the kitchen garden produces a mini mountain of produce? A preserve is my go to. Grapes and cucamelons make a delicious rich chutney that smells and tastes like heaven.

At first glance, the cucamelon looks like a modern novelty destined for Instagram fame — a miniature watermelon, the size of a grape, with a cucumber-like cross section, satisfying big crunch and a cucumber taste with a hint of tangy lime.

These tiny fruits (Melothria scabra) are no modern hybrid at all, but heirs to a heritage that stretches back centuries to the heart of Central America.

Asterion Founder, Neil Crump, chats to Chris, our first official collaborator, about the values that underpin good growing and good living.