Some friends are getting married tomorrow, as a more personal gift me and Rhys are making a ‘food hamper’ including shortbread (muma’ making), chocolates, mustard and garlic mayo, mustard, lemon curd (muma’s making), pickled quail eggs and a joint of ‘homemade’ beef
Archive for July, 2008
Wedding Gifts
Posted in Food, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged gift, wedding on July 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
CSA Meeting
Posted in Farming News, Food, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged Food, Community Supported Argiculture, farming, local, community on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This evening I went to a meeting about Community Supported Argiculture and the possiblity of setting something up locally. I hadn’t heard of CSA before but there is a very good one in Stroud which is quite local.
“There are many different ways a CSA can be set up . It all depends on the decisions [...]
In season this week #2
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
VEGETABLES
artichoke, aubergine, beetroot, broad beans, broccoli, carrots, courgettes, cucumber, fennel, french beans, garlic, kohlrabi, mangetout, new potatoes, onions, peas, potatoes (maincrop), radishes, rocket, runner beans, sorrel, turnips, watercress
FRUIT & NUTS
apricots, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, greengages, kiwi fruit, loganberries, melons, peaches, raspberries, redcurrants, strawberries, tomatoes
MEAT
lamb, rabbit, wood pigeon
Thank you Eat The Seasons
Gardening
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, Garden, Home grown food, tagged Beans, beetroot, carrots, Garden on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The veggie garden has exploded over the last couple of weeks, I can almost see things growing daily.
My carrot and beetroot seeds are coming through and the bush beans that are in paper pots waiting to go out are doing nicely too.
Everyone has a little bit to do
Posted in About nothing really, Chickens, Food, tagged Chickens, Eggs, free range, Good Egg Award on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve never really had a good opinion of McDonald’s, they’ve always been up on my list of ‘greasy company’, and so I was really suspired to find that they hold a Good Egg Award.
“The Good Egg Awards seek to recognise companies that are making a difference to the welfare of laying hens by switching [...]
Technial hold ups
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, tagged film on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post should be a film of butter making, however I have spent the last week trying to load the film onto YouTube with no luck.
I didn’t want the film to be lost if I posted my other posts and then went back and posted the film of the right day so I’ve just been [...]
Early morning and audio loading
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food, Homemade, tagged audio, butter, Garden, rain, strawberries on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I got up before most people this morning and wondered round the garden looking at plants and harvesting some strawberries, it was really nice and peaceful. Then I came in and made some butter out of the last of the single cream.
It’s been raining for most of the day ever since.
I had planned to load [...]
New shoes and days off
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, tagged roadworks, shoes, shopping on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I bought some new shoes today, normally all my shoes are give aways, from carboots or charity shops, but there are road works on the way into Gloucester so I didn’t want to spend the day sat in traffic so I went into Ross-on-Wye instead.
I aso got a phone call letting me know that the [...]
In season this week #1
Posted in Food, Garden, Home grown food on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbits is top of the list this week.
Vegetabeles: artichoke, aubergine, beetroot (lots in) broad beans (yuck!) broccoli, carrots courgettes, cucumber, fennel, french beans, garlic (still waiting for them to turn brown) kohlrabi, mangetout, new potatoes, onions (mostly gone to seed) peas (we are harvesting these!) potatoes (maincrop) (waiting for them to finish flowering, last year Christmas potatoes) radishes (yuck! [...]
LETS Meeting
Posted in About nothing really, Food, tagged Jam, LETS, Local Exchange Trading System, market, Mustard, peg loom, rug on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tonight I mangaed to get to the LETS (Local Exchange Trading System, there is a link to the main site on the side) meeting, I’ve been a memeber for just over a year now and have only ever got to one meeting and that was a year ago.
Last month I planned to go to the [...]
