Author: Vicky Radtke
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Wild Garlic and Rocket Risotto Recipe
Wild garlic and rocket arancini with tomato sauce. After the Spring equinox on March 21, Nature opens her pantry doors and beneath our feet emerge fresh green leaf forms with their distinctive shapes, aromas and properties. The first food to arrive in Nature’s larder are nettles, dandelions and wild garlic (or ramsons), and they all…
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Hedgerow Wine Recipe
Hedgerow Wine Recipe: Makes 1 demijohn = 6 x 750ml bottles Ingredients: 1.5kg mixed hedgerow fruit – blackberries, sloes, haws 1.25kg sugar 4.5L boiling water 4 teabags (black tea) *1 tsp pectolase *1 tsp citric acid *1 tsp yeast nutrient *1 tsp wine yeast *1 camden tablet (sulphite – optional) Other equipment: *Steriliser (e.g. Brew…
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The Fig Leaf
July 28th 2022 My Dear Tan, What a weekend we had in the woods…cooking feasts over an open fire, spotting forage for harvesting in the autumn – nuts and berries which the squirrels will undoubtedly get to first. It’s a good year for hazelnuts but you have to tune your ‘nut eye’ in as they…
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The Resilient Life Self Sufficiency Workshops
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” ― Robert Jordan The Resilient Life Workshops Being resilient is not just about being creative in the kitchen or having your own garden or homestead, it’s about how to apply a more resourceful attitude to living. Firstly, it’s about…