I know it’s a little bit sad that I’m already planning Christmas dinner, and really looking forward to it, but it would be really nice to have has much of what we can home grown.
I’m going to try potato’s again this year. I tried growing them for Christmas last year but was a little bit late with [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Christmas Carrots
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged carrots, Christmas, Christmas Dinner, polytunnel, potato on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Open Gardens
Posted in About nothing really, Food, Garden, Goats, Homemade, tagged bath, bread, butter, cow, cream, milk, Open Garden, pizza, school, studio, Village, yogurt on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The next-but-one-village-over held their open garden this weekend, I’ve been saying I’d go for a few years but near managed it until this year. There are some really nice gardens that open too, there was one garden which you go into and you think it only has a small cottage-garden-y type lawn with flower boarders [...]
Butter
Posted in Food, Homemade, tagged butter, cream, kenwood, milk on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I made butter today, not from our own cream but Spar had six tubs for 10p each that couldn’t be left there.
It took an hour and half in the Kenwood, but was worth it and it was only single cream.
Unusual planter
Posted in About nothing really, tagged Big Green Gathering, recycling on June 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Someone on the River Cottage Forum has started a thread asking about unuaual items that can be used for planting, which made me remeber these:
They were at 2007’s Big Green Gathering.
Elderflower Cordial
Posted in Food, Homemade, Wild Food, tagged elderflower on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For maybe the last three years or so encounters with elderflowers have been very unpleasant, just the smell of the flowers courses my eyes to feel all puffy and like someone has punched me very hard in both of them. Because of this I’ve avoided them like the pledge until the flowers are over and they become [...]
Cows & Milk
Posted in Food, Goats, Home grown food, tagged calf, cow, Dexter, Jersey, milk on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Primrose’s calf has now gone, he’s been sold, so we’re milking her again now.
Her milk is lovely; she is a Jersey cross so her milk has a yellow-y colour to it from all the cream and butter fats. Her calf hasn’t been nice to her udder and it is covered in cuts and sore [...]
Seeds, more seeds and seedlings
Posted in Day-to-day, Food, Garden, Home grown food, tagged ebay, peas, seeds, Sweet corn on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My seeds from ebay arrived the other day.
Unfortunatly the sweet corn seeds that I bought aren’t eatable ones, I should have read the listing more carefully, which meant a trip to the garden centre to buy some more seeds asap to plant now, and a few others.
My trays of pea seeds are coming through nicely now, [...]
Egg Freezing – trying and testing it
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We have a glut of eggs at the moment, that is of course what happens when you produce in season food.
I’ve heard of a few people who freeze eggs for use later in the year, so I’m going to try it.
This morning I bought two different kinds of ice cub trays and ice cub bags [...]
A happier news story
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged duck on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Amazing rescue by a mother duck who went the extra mile
