Today is the autumn equinox, and despite the pleasant warm weather we have been happening – there does seem to be a seasonal change going on. the leaves are changing on the trees, we are nearing the end of harvesting our veg, we have culled animals for our stores (well freezers), and the foraging is [...]
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equinox and foraging
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods on 22 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
blackberry liqueur
Posted in homebrew, recipes, wild foods on 18 September 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my continuing quest to find good uses for blackberries – well to be honest we got stuck on the apple and blackberry cordial which works so well and popular with the non-drinkers of the family, I haven’t done much else, but I have made a bottle of blackberry liqueur (recipe)
It’s pretty good. A martyr [...]
pressing again
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, self-sufficiency, wild foods on 17 September 2009 | 6 Comments »
Hot, hot day. This evening, we pressed the last of our apples – well the last of the ones set aside for pressing – we still have some stored for puddings etc.
Five of these blue trays (available free from greengrocers!) full of apples, previously frozen, made sixteen litres of juice.
We drank one with, yes, another [...]
haw ketchup
Posted in books, recipes, wild foods on 8 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
As I mentioned in my last post, we had a go at the haw ketchup recipe in the River cottage preserves book, and we are converts. Haws now join the list of wild foods actually worth foraging for. Not that it’s actually hard to get enough haws.. they are out in masses. I won’t actually [...]
autumn forage
Posted in books, recipes, wild foods on 6 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m a bit nonplussed, underwhelmed even about foraging. My Dad, an ex boy scout, was always telling us of things we could eat… you know.. like hawthorn leaves. So us kids would dutifully pick a leaf and chew it.. and wonder why anyone would bother. The truth is, although there are a lot of things [...]
clearing up in the calm
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables, wild foods on 3 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pretty hideous weather yesterday; this morning sunshine – although there were just enough showers to stop me from getting any laundry dry…
Not much damage done, no trees down, just a branch. Two courgette plant casualties, and one bean pole.
A friend remarked that it was as though we are a month further on, and he is [...]
already autumn
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, wild foods on 29 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
I like this time of year, wandering around the perimeter of our land, gathering blackberries from the hedgerows. It is a really good way to check the hedges and really look at the fields. Although the bank holiday weekend, there is a cold snap to the air. We are gathering the first of the hazelnuts, [...]
windfall jam
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged fruit, pigs on 10 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
My Mum always claims that August is autumn not summer. Actually I can see her point – even with the weekend’s hot weather the sun had that sleepy Indian summer feel, quite different to the June sunshine.
One of the things that makes it feel autumnal is the harvesting and storing routine going on. The freezers [...]
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