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Pick Your Own

Pick Your Own

As June approaches, thoughts turn to ripening fruits and for many, who do not have the space or time to grow their own, the "pick your own" fruit farm is the ideal place to be. [Read more...]  Read More →

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New Seashore Foragers’ Handbook

New Seashore Foragers’ Handbook

The seashore holds surprising culinary potential for the forager and the new book "The Edible Seashore" covers everything you need to know about harvesting the bounties of the shoreline! [Read more...]  Read More →

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Home Made Yoghurt

Home Made Yoghurt

In our goal for self sufficiency, we have introduced a yoghurt maker to the kitchen and the result has been excellent. We purchased our yoghurt maker from Lakeland, it is very simple, compact, easy to clean and for those not familiar to making yoghurt, contains a simple instruction... [Read more...]

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The Humble Turnip makes a Comeback

The Humble Turnip makes a Comeback

      A recent article in the Guardian would suggest that the humble turnip or (Neep / Stumshie) as it is known in Scotland is staging a comeback. Commonly the Swede or yellow turnip (Rutabaga) is what we refer to as "turnip" but the true turnip is a smaller, white root... [Read more...]

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National Baking Week

National Baking Week

  National Baking Week - 20th to 26th October - is a celebration of baking and what better way to use your hedgerow harvest, making crumbles, pies, muffins and much more. Baking is nostalgia. It gives a warm glow. It makes us think of family times, licking the spoon and making... [Read more...]

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Go to your local show…

Go to your local show…

Regularly seen as something to do on a Sunday with the 'olds' the local show or village gathering is well worth a visit. The day is often the culmination of many weeks of meetings by the organising committee and the highlight of the social calendar for many. In the UK many... [Read more...]

Hedgerow Food

Great Burnet

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Whilst picking Brambles yesterday, I came across something I have not seen for many years....Wild Burnet.

I used to pick these en masse for my father to make wine and here it was growing in the grassland near the hedgerow. [Read more...]

August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment


Fungi

Roger’s Mushrooms

mushrooms Rogers Mushrooms

The most complete guide to mushrooms on the web.

Based on Roger Phillips seminal work 'Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe' and the similar book published on the mushrooms and Fungi of North America.

 Roger's twenty-year study will make his site the most complete collection of photographs and mushroom information from both sides of the Atlantic ever assembled. [Read more...]

July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment


Make it yourself

Schools grow their own

Schools across Cumbria are being encouraged to spring into action and enter the Grow Your Own competition, run by Booths and The World of Beatrix Potter.

Peter Rabbit - credit © Frederick Warne & Co., 2009

Peter Rabbit - credit © Frederick Warne & Co., 2009

Over 40 primary schools have already registered to take part in the competition but time is running out for other schools to get their entries in for the contest, which challenges local schoolchildren to get set and grow their own fruit and vegetables. [Read more...]

April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment


Foraging

Pick Your Own

As June approaches, thoughts turn to ripening fruits and for many, who do not have the space or time to grow their own, the "pick your own" fruit farm is the ideal place to be. [Read more...]

May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment


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Budget Help

Useful Sites

To help you get the best from your weekly shopping and control a tight food budget, you may get some useful hints and advice from the following sites:

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November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment


Recipies

How to make an easy rice pudding

If you are looking for a simple to make family pudding then you can not go far wrong with this recipe for a rice pudding.

This pudding is ideal for a cheap, easily made, ballast kind of pudding.  Great for cold winter nights when you just need a bit of fuel in the tummy at the end of the day.

We are going to make the pudding in a microwave.  It is by far the cleanest and most efficient way as it avoids stirring a pan on the stove constantly. [Read more...]

October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment