Over the last month or so it's been fairly slow in the office. Our May/June issue came out the second week of May, which meant getting a start on my new stories for the July/August issue.

For the three weeks I worked on my articles I had a constant rumbling in my tummy paired with sporadic food cravings, as–spoiler alert–both stories were centred on home-grown food.

In the nineteenth century, some people thought that if you were feeling a little blue, you should go to the zoo and look at large mammals.