From Garden To Plate: Leafy Greens
I’ve spoken recently about the abundance of greens in my garden at the moment {here}. So, when I came across this recipe for ‘Wild Weed Pie’ in Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Companion, I was...
View ArticleChicken Coop Update
We had a very domesticated weekend filled with cleaning, gardening & cooking. It was slow and non-eventful, but somehow satisfying when I sat back on Sunday night and realised how productive we’d...
View ArticleSpring Planting
Over the weekend I had a productive time in the garden weeding, preparing 4 of 7 garden beds ready for Spring planting. I planted a bundle of little seedlings including: Basil / Thyme / Italian...
View ArticleGarden Share Collective: October
Somehow, another month has flown by and it is time again to share with you the progress in my garden over the last month as part of Garden Share Collective. We’ve been harvesting mulberries as fast as...
View ArticleGarden Share Collective: November
It is nearing that time of month when I share what has been going on in our humble garden as part of the Garden Share Collective. We have had an upside down month, with three out of four weekends...
View ArticleGarden Share Collective: December
It is the final ‘Garden Share Collective‘ for the year, so here is another little update on what has been happening in our garden. Harvest: We had a modest harvest of baby beets – they didn’t seem to...
View ArticleFrom Garden to Plate: Zucchini & Coconut Bread
I mentioned earlier in the week that we had grown the most enormous zucchini I have ever seen. I was so proud when I found it, I ran down to Adam with the biggest grin on my face. And we called out...
View ArticleHappy New Year
A very happy new year to you. I thought I’d start the year with the simplest of recipes. A recipe you can never go wrong with and one of the first I ever made – at school in home economics class....
View ArticleGarden Update: Summer
With incredibly hot weather of late and very little reprieve from the afternoon storms we usually experience this time of year, I thought the garden would be in worse shape than it is. But I am...
View ArticleGarden Share Collective: February
A new year and the first Garden Share Collective for 2014. The biggest news I have to share is that we finally finished the chicken coop. And we had two beautiful heritage hens (of the Barnevelder...
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