Where the bacon comes from ….
All the bacon and sausages sold in the Blue Rabbit Cafe come from our own pigs who free-range on our smallholding. Yesterday we took two of these pigs to the […]
Tag Archives: food revolution
Veggies
Another day, another 5 hours spent sitting in Frankfurt Airport. I should have been home by now, walking my dogs and picking carrots in the polytunnel of dreams, but I’m […]
Food Forest
The polytunnel of dreams is a food forest. This is a polite way of saying that it is a completely overgrown mess, but a somewhat edible mess. I did a […]
The Giant Beanstalk
I am totally the kind of person who would swap their cow for some magic beans proffered by a stranger encountered on a road. I suspect this is why Iggy […]
Bacon and Pea Salad
We are currently eating a lot of salad in various forms – experimenting for future food truck lunches. This one is made with peas, broad beans, courgette as well as […]
The Pear Garden
I spent some of my time off last week working on the Pear Garden – sorting out the greenhouses and the fruit cage. it isn’t finished but it is slowly […]
Pea and New Potato Pasta
I did some furtling yesterday among the potatoes in the poly tunnel and came up with three lovely new potatoes. I also managed to collect enough peas for a meal. […]
Kohlrabi, Kale and Radish Coleslaw
The kohlrabi and radishes are doing well in the polytunnel and as we have no carrots or cabbages yet I used them – with a little cavolo nero – to […]
The Polytunnel is Nearly Full
While it’s not always sunny outside, it is always lovely in the polytunnel of dreams. I think I have already nearly filled it up – squeak – I might need […]
Hugelkultur spring clean
The last couple of weeks I have given the hugelkultur beds a bit of a spring clean. I pulled out all of the old sprouting broccoli (some of these were […]
