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Where the bacon comes from ….

July 3, 2018by Claire 1 Comment

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 […]

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Animals, Food Truck

Veggies

July 21, 2017by Claire 2 Comments

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 […]

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gardening

Food Forest

July 19, 2017by Claire 13 Comments

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 […]

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gardening

The Giant Beanstalk

June 27, 2017by Claire 8 Comments

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 […]

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Food Truck, gardening, recipes

Bacon and Pea Salad

June 12, 2017by Claire 1 Comment

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 […]

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Food Truck, recipes

The Pear Garden

June 9, 2017by Claire 2 Comments

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 […]

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gardening

Pea and New Potato Pasta

May 31, 2017by Claire Leave a comment

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. […]

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gardening, recipes

Kohlrabi, Kale and Radish Coleslaw

May 27, 2017by Claire 1 Comment

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 […]

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recipes

The Polytunnel is Nearly Full

May 9, 2017by Claire 18 Comments

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 […]

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gardening

Hugelkultur spring clean

May 7, 2017by Claire 6 Comments

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 […]

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gardening

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