Tag: self sufficient
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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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Wild Wine Presentation at Charleston Trust
Friday 15th July. 2.15pm For the Festival of the Garden at Charleston Trust, the Resilient Life team discussed the benefits of nature’s living larder and outlined creative ways to balance our lives in harmony with the seasons. We gave a demonstration on Wild Wine fermenting, from start to finish, and how to use foraged ingredients…
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Free Greens
My Dear friend Vicky, Thank you so much for your lovely letter, yes it feels like an age since we were in the woods camping and preparing food from our allotments. I love the way we combined delicious recipes and ingredients without any pre-discussion…but I think that’s what happens when you use seasonal food as…
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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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Creative Resilience & the Magic of Charleston Farmhouse
” . . . It has a charming garden, with a pond, and fruit trees, and vegetables, all now rather run wild, but you could make it lovely”. Virginia Woolf In the winter of 1916, the artist Vanessa Bell asked her sister, the writer Virginia Woolf to help her find a country retreat for herself…
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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…