Reading Time: 7 minutesLove Your Larder, Pep up Your Pantry – get into traditional food storage, and you’ll think twice about the fridge freezer. Fancy something salted, pickled, fermented, dried, smoked, potted, cellared, and stored in olive oil or honey? You can find this food all around the world. You can sample all kinds of distinctive foods that […]
Food and Farming
Zero Waste Ways With Fat and Oil in the Kitchen: Bread and Dripping Days
Reading Time: 7 minutesZero waste ways with fat and oil may be a lost art. When I was little, I loved bread and dripping. I remember at my Nan’s house the smell of cooked bacon drawing me to the kitchen where she was clearing up. I’d sidle up to her, and I’d say “Can I have some bread […]
Save Mother Owl – Support Nature-Friendly Farming
Reading Time: 4 minutesMother Owl is sick and dying. She perches in a tree, looking down on fields of broccoli, cabbages, carrots, oilseed rape and cereals. The landscape that is the cause of her demise. She may not be able to reach her chicks in a nest nearby. She can hear them, but, she has fatigued muscles and […]
Edible Perennials for Low-maintenance Allotments: Five Plus Points
Reading Time: 7 minutesAh, the unattainable dream – the low-maintenance allotment. Yes, I want one please… Edible perennials for low-maintenance allotments is a concept I’ve been building on. I’m about to extend my edible perennial area, and I do think it will reduce maintenance time. Not that I don’t want to spend time on the allotment, for I […]
The Small Productive Garden: Six Plus Points
Reading Time: 8 minutesDoes the thought of a small space put you off starting a productive garden? Is the produce from this space even worth bothering with? If these thoughts have surfaced in your mind, you probably wouldn’t be alone. I’ve thought the same myself. But, you may be surprised at how many edibles, medicinals and other useful […]
Artisan Food: Is It Better For Us and the Planet?
Reading Time: 3 minutesJust to the south of where I live is a landscape that has terroir: multiple distinct landscapes producing vegetables, cider and beer. It’s a great place to source artisan food. This is a continuation of a journey around the English west midlands where I live. I started in the hills in the north, moved round […]
