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River Cottage Ginger Beer

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Making your own alcoholic ginger beer is simple, quick and very cost effective.  We have detailed the River Cottage version below which is our favourite. This is a cloudy and very lively beer, so we only make about five bottles of this in one go.  By the time you get round to drinking the last [...]

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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. The Wild Burnet or Sanguisorba Officinalis grows to around 1m tall in grassland and on [...]

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