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Jul 12, 2011, 7:44 am
I grew up on a diet of many delights, one of which was Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. Living in Stroud some years ago, I felt a connection with this poem of my childhood far away, and this led me to make a film about the poem on Super8.
Now I have returned to Stroud, and at last, have a garde... Comment - Like
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May 30, 2011, 6:29 pm
The days of the weed growing are numbered as I am moving to Stroud (of Rupert Burdock fame) and I will have to abandon the anotment after three years of adventures (or is it four, I am useless at tracking time).
I have been so excited by working with the land and the girls that I am looking for ... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2010, 7:27 am
Rupert Burdock and his Wild ThingsA couple of weekends ago I was in lovely Stroud where I met Rupert Burdock. He sold me a bag of Milk thistle heads and invited me to join his afternoon wild food walk. Sadly I couldn't go that day but we had a very nice cup of tea instead with some poets and artists... Comment - Like
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Jul 30, 2010, 5:54 am
Being as it is the Year of Biodiversity and I am making my own plot more biodiverse than it was, I thought this would be interesting for you biodiversityfoodiephiles.
Bem-me-quer is a vegetarian restaurant located in the centre of Lisbon (Portugal).
This vegetarian restaurant has launched a cuisine... Comment - Like
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Jul 23, 2010, 11:40 am
Last weekend I went on a family outing to Sussex to see where my brother works at www.commonwork.org as they had an open day.
It was fascinating and inspiring, I discovered:
- nettle tea goes clear when you add lemon drops
- how to bodge a rounders bat
- when to collect woad for dyeing
- a new drink... Comment - Like
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Jul 18, 2010, 7:27 pm
It's been a while but the plants have moved quickly. A month ago the plot was green and lush and new things seemed to be appearing every day, crowding each other out. Now it looks untidy and shrivelled but I have been collecting poppy seeds and heads for decoration, and some of the slower things are... Comment - Like
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May 17, 2010, 2:47 pm
Apparently it's Be Nice to Nettles Week here in the UK and I have juct been at the notment manhandling some of my own. Not that I really claim to own the nettles but I am allowed at the moment to interfere with them if I want to. They sting! I am quite used to it from working on this plot and today ... Comment - Like
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May 13, 2010, 11:48 am
One nice thing about this project is learning slowly and developing a deepening relationship with the natural processes. Last year I found wood blewitts growing on the plot and this year they came back. They seem to be rather out of season but I am still fairly sure that's what they are! I ate them ... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2010, 3:45 pm
I just picked up a little book in a charity shop the other day because it mentioned wildlife gardening and I wanted some wholesome retail therapy.
I didn't expect much, I thought it would be very light and fanciful. But it turned out it was a fab piece of popular science writing, about a study don... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2010, 1:26 pm
The Pensford ecosystem/wild/edible garden has been officially accepted onto the Capital Growth scheme member number 0423.
This scheme, run by the London Mayor's office and various social and environmental organisations, means I get some free advice and they also sent some chive seeds and an outdoo... Comment - Like
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Apr 19, 2010, 1:21 pm
The Natural History Museum has this interesting list of plants recorded in the local area. You can use it anywhere in the UK - just type in your postcode
Lots is going on this spring at the anotment and will be making several posts in the next few days... including:
- Wood blewit and alexanders pas... Comment - Like
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Mar 7, 2010, 3:35 pm
It has been such a long time, we had so much cold and rain and snow this winter that I have hardly been down to the notment at all. A couple of weeks ago I did go, and collected some baby Alexanders, which went down very well with the family. They are very herbal, like fennel, aniseed or celery but ... Comment - Like
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Jan 13, 2010, 3:56 pm
We had another wassail at Pensford Field where the camera battery ran out (Twice!) so I only got one picture. I was going to go back to get some pics for you of the notment in snow but Then my own battery ran out and I got a horrible flu. If the snow holds I will report on the state of the plants i... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 7:07 am
I brought camera on sunday and got some pics for you:
A woolly blanket for the baby herbs, keeps down the competition and the slugs hate fur too:
Nettle roots will be used to dye the rest of the fleece:
Lepista sordida growing among nettles - and Alexander seedlings in the foreground:
and at home... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 2:08 pm
I went down the notment a couple of days ago as its the change of season and its time to check up.
I found all the little herbs I planted doing well under their woolly blanket, and the big dominating original plants that were so enormous in the summer, dying back and shrivelling. The Alexanders were... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 5:14 pm
It was chestnut season a week or two ago and now they are over but I still have the pics. Being from the Kew Road, they are probably full of horrible pollutants but they were very sweet and delicious after a bit of roasting. They went down well in this house and you can see the before and after in... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2009, 8:26 am
how the notment is looking after a lot of nettle-clearing. I have cleared this area twice now, cropping the baby nettle and fat hen as it crops up so quickly.
A pile of breeze blocks under the nettles has been partially dismantled to make small seats in a circle for the herbs - with the help of my ... Comment - Like
Sarah D. posted an article on
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Oct 4, 2009, 8:01 am
This:
http://www.wildfoodmentor.co.uk/x/notify
is a course on wild food, I am wanting to sign up but will i have time? can i justify the cost? will i actually follow it?
maybe i could do it and report on the results here. your recommendation?
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Sarah D. posted an article on
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Aug 17, 2009, 8:55 am
I harvested a large batch of nettles the other day. After all the hard work a couple of weeks ago the nettles sprang back incredibly fast and are already a foot high again. I made an enormous quantity of nettle puree from the young tops. Did you know nettles contain more iron and more protein than s... Comment - Like
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