Category: Kitchen Garden

Looking for a naked lettuce

One of our number has been exploring what it means to live without producing any waste. Here is one day in her diary

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How To Make the Most of Your Nastursiums!

Is your garden full of nastursiums (lots of orange / yellow / red flowers with big lilypad type leaves)? Have you thought of making a meal with them? We did…

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Something to chew over

Spare a thought for the humble cow – our relationship with it may be destroying the earth

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The Joy Of Foraging No. 3: Fergus Drennan and Hawthorn

Last night Fergus Drennan, otherwise known as Fergus the Forager came to take a group of 140 Bristol freeconomists around St Werburghs. Just along the first street, on our way to some more overgrown areas he found five or six edible plants – and the most promising was the humble hawthorn, in fruit right now. Here’s what you can do with it.

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Here’s a Quick Way to Make Something You’ll Wonder How You Managed Without!

Do you ever despair at the amount of food left behind in the mixing bowl / saucepan / casserole pot? Spatulas are okay but bakers’ scrapers are better! Here’s how to make your own, reduce food waste and make washing up easier for you (or your dishwasher).

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Elderflower Cordial with Strawberries grown in a Broken Wheelbarrow!

Think ‘Can I use it for something else?’ before you throw it out!

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How To Make A Rocket Stove

A rocket stove is a very simple cooking method that uses twigs or scraps of wood to create a very focussed heat source; no wasted heat. Watch this video walk-through.

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Green bunting with a story

Bunting and celebration go hand-in-hand, but it can be planet-friendly and meaningful too! Transform some of your old clothes into a fun reminder of good times (or turn clothes with less happy connections into something positive)...

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The Joy of Foraging No. 2: Nettles & Wild Garlic.

The feel-good-factor of a forage in the back garden is hard to beat, especially when it adds justification for a neglect of weeds!

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New Faces on the Allotment

Taking on an allotment for the first time is a fascinating business. We inherited a half plot full of fruit from a couple of ninety something year olds who could no longer manage it. The very first day we visited we came home with a bag full of rhubarb. More than that the allotment is a place of peace, a focus for community and a mixing of the generations.

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