The forecast had given dire warnings of heavy rain for today, so it was with surprise that we woke up to sunshine. We rushed out to make the most of it before the rain came – and that is how the day went.
Himself finished digging over veg bed 8 (only 8 more to go then!), [...]
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waiting for rain
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 15 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
pork sausages
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 10 November 2009 | 6 Comments »
We’ve been sausage making again. This time using one pork hand, one slab of pork belly, and all the bit and pieces saved from the butchery day. Delish.
We also set aside enough sausage meat for the chestnut stuffing for that winter festival thingy, and another lot for sausage rolls. Homemade sausage rolls are always so [...]
mud
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 3 November 2009 | 6 Comments »
Torrential rain. Always makes me laugh when people tell me how the raising of meat uses so much more water and therefore it’s not environmentally sound to eat meat (they say,tucking into their palm oil whatever..). Water, in this part of the world, is in plentiful supply.. and we live in one of the rainiest places in [...]
november
Posted in general wittering, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 2 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
It just seemed to sneak up on us – I suppose the good weather making us forget it was autumn, then suddenly it’s November. And blustery and raining.
I’ve stripped the last of the tomato plants, and picked my last tomatoes – a few more batches of roasted tomato sauce for the freezer, and some jars [...]
confused garden
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, vegetables on 19 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
My garden is confused. First there is a cold snap, then the autumn went warm, and now it is cold again.
The roses are out in full flower, and they look good mixed with the Michaelmas daisies.
One of my purple sprouting broccoli is sprouting. and ready to eat… admittedly it is the early variety, Rudolph, but [...]
crab
Posted in grow your own food, recipes, vegetables on 15 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We three love crab, and I bought one from the fish van. Crab is great, tasty, sweet, low fat, and sustainable. They are caught locally (well ok not actually on Dartmoor, but fairly locally anyway), and I bought it from a small independent trader (aka the fish van). The are caught in a way that [...]
is it worth it?
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding on 14 October 2009 | 5 Comments »
When raising animals for food, and eggs, or growing veg, it always has to be questioned whether it is actually worth it, financially and effortwise.
Well I think it is on many levels.
Financially, it is. But it depends what you take into account – I have seen so many times the question on a forum; “how [...]
physalis
Posted in fruit, grow your own food on 10 October 2009 | 5 Comments »
This is the first year I have grown physalis. The plants have been a bit late in getting their act together.. or perhaps I should have planted them earlier…So far we had just had one or two ripen which have been scoffed when the greenhouse was being watered, but now there are more coming.
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