Category: Kitchen Garden

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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The Joy of Foraging No. 1: Nettles

Stinging Nettles and Dead Nettles….both good for eating! I’ve had a fascination for foraging since I was little, not that I remember being very impressed by my older brother’s offering of steamed stinging nettles…they were probably mature leaves rather than young so seemed a bit strong!

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Chocolate Beetroot Cake in a Recycled Tin

No cake tin, no problem! Improvising with what’s to hand can be really fulfilling. I’m following in the footsteps of both my mother and her mother by saving butter-wrappers for lining tins (it’s quicker than faffing with baking parchment, at least for the sides!). The tins I used weren’t from baked beans but sponge puddings…4”/10cm. (They were in the cupboard…)

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