Dr. Mark Gardener
Dr. Christine Gardener
Welcome...
To our web site. We are a couple of scientists (Chris: biochemistry, Mark: ecology) who have moved to the country. We used to live in Milton Keynes but now we are located near to Bideford and Great Torrington in North Devon.
Please visit from time to time and see what's new.
The vegetable garden ready for the new season (Mar 2009)
April-May 2009 - Garden chores
Sping has been a time of activity in the garden. The weeds seem to be growing faster than my plants but at least something is growing...
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News
Courses in:
data analysis for conservation biologists. Details here in the education section.
Even newer news
Home tuition in IT GO for IT here...
Education
We both teach and in this section you can find some details of what we do. For example, find out about Don't Panic, the statistical learning environment produced by us. Also learn how to use R, the free Open Source program for statistical analysis.
Garden
Our garden is important to us. On these pages you will find details of how we are going about growing our own vegetables. At present there are also some notes about some garden projects that we've undertaken (like building a shed and making raised beds).
Blog
On these pages find a few diary/blog entries, keeping you up to date with what we have been getting up to.
Cooking
We have a new cooker, a Watson range. This is similar to Rayburn and Aga cookers. In this section we'll provide a few recipes and ideas for cooking the vegetables that we are growing.