I’ve been out at the Waterside Centre on the Tottenham Marshes this weekend for an introduction to permaculture course. I’ll tell you more about it later. If you were there this weekend and are dropping by, welcome.
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Landshare website launches
The Landshare website has launched. If you haven’t come across it yet, Landshare is “a place linking people who want to grow their own fruit & veg to space where they can grow it.” You can now register either as a grower or a landowner, or just drop by to lend your food growing expertise. [...]
VeggieTrader
Here’s a neat idea: VeggieTrader is a new website that launched just last week as a place to sell or swap home-grown fruit and vegetables. If you get a bumper crop and have more than you can use, you can post it on the site and exchange it for something else. The site works around [...]
Seasonal eating in April
I can’t believe it’s April already, but the clocks have gone forward and it’s light in the evenings and time to eat more of the following things: Lots of leafy things to enjoy, like spinach, kale, spring greens, green cabbages, and lettuce. Liven up those leaves with some radish and spring onion. Roots from the [...]
Seasonal eating in March
March sees the back of beetroot, brussel sprouts and celeriac. Apples will also be reaching the end of their storage life. White cabbage is on its way out, and green cabbages will replace them. Cauliflower returns, along with broccoli of the purple sprouting variety. You might want to eat more spinach, rhubarb, leeks, spring onions, [...]
Landshare
My sister sent me a link to Landshare last week. It’s Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s next project, after the success of the Chicken Out campaign. This one’s all about growing your own food, and not letting lack of space stand in your way. On the Landshare website you can register as a grower, landowner, or land-spotter. [...]
Seasonal eating – February
Every time I go to the grocer I discover something new about our food system and the intricacies of the supply chains for year-round supply. This time, I learned that severe rain in Spain has washed away greenhouses and ruined the season’s crop of cucumbers. They’re now in short supply, and prices reflect the shortage. [...]
Seasonal eating – January
It’s January again, which means if you’re eating more seasonally you are dusting down the recipe books for interesting things to do with swede, parsnips, leeks, potatoes, sprouts, chicory, celery, and cabbages of many kinds. Also see beetroot and pears. On the meat and fish front, get yourself some venison or guinea fowl, and monkfish, [...]
Seasonal eating – December
It’s now a year since I began my monthly seasonality update, so this post brings us full circle. As I’ve said before, I haven’t been eating totally seasonally for a year, I’ve eating more seasonally. This time last year I could not have told what was in season, beyond strawberries and new potatoes perhaps, and [...]
Seasonal eating – November
It snowed last week. It hasn’t snowed in October in my part of the world for 70 years. I hurried out and picked all the tomatoes, green or not, and sure enough the tomato plants are now dead. The arrival of frost puts an end to anything soft and freezable. If you want to eat [...]
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