About Matt Freer

I am married to Polly; father to Ayla and Asher; a follower of Jesus; passionate about justice and the environment; into exploring new expressions of community and lifestyle; enjoy being creative; thrive on being in the outdoors walking and occasionally surfing; like good food and even growing it; love camping, especially in a camper van; and enjoy travelling. I live in east Oxford; work for the Diocese of Oxford on environmental issues, and also work freelance; I’m a member of House244 and hOME. I’ve spent time living and working in rural and urban Africa, and rural and urban Britain. I’ve worked for a number of charities in community development, advocacy and project management, including Tearfund, Micah Challenge, Jubilee Centre Zambia and CMS, as well as in the UK Westminster Parliament. I blog at mattfreer.wordpress.com

Hooray the greenhouse is finished!

Posted on 9 February 2012 by Matt Freer

We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth

Posted on 9 January 2012 by Matt Freer

Beautiful short film with narration adapted from excerpts from that haunting read ‘Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad.

via We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth on Vimeo.

Family photo book

Posted on 27 December 2011 by Matt Freer

I made a present for my family this Christmas, a photobook of the last three years or so… lots of memories and big occasions at last taken from the screen to be printed. It looks great and everyone is enjoying it.

Made via Blurb.com

2011 in the garden

Posted on 16 December 2011 by Matt Freer

2011 has been a good year in the garden at house244. We had a good harvest of potatoes, tomatoes, chard, walking stick cabbages, runner beans, lettuces, rocket, borage and peas, but the borlotti beans, carrots and sweetcorn were a little disappointing. In three years though we’ve established the veg garden well, and next year we plan to expand the veg beds into the other side of the garden (left in photo above), which will all be aided by the new greenhouse… which after many hours has resulted in the picture below, just need to put in the glass now… yeah rather important but at least the structure is up!

Another good Grow Zones season…

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Matt Freer

Making way for chickens…, originally uploaded by mattfreer.

We finished another great Grow Zones season of visits in Oxford the other week. This season we’ve prepared ground for a chicken house and a greenhouse, there has been plenty of veg bed prep for the winter, with green manure sowed, and lots of tidying up.

The shared lunches have also been of a very high homemade standard. All round great fun and rewarding work, with lots of chatter and laughter along the way.

www.growzones.com