Growing Things and Making Things

In the field behind our house there's a crab apple tree that was ever so pretty in the spring. Pretty spring-time blossom Now it's...

The time to gather hazelnuts is when they're just ripe, before the squirrels get to them. Unfortunately, such a time is mythical, as the...

I did write this yesterday, but technology didn't behave as expected and I lost it, so here goes the second attempt. I have Mark at Gall...

I've written more about wild foods than cultivated ones this year, but the garden has been ticking over. In spite of an encouraging star...

I'll take a break from mushrooms this week, though I did find a huge cep this evening, which I ate for my dinner. I also had a very suc...

A couple of weeks ago, I told you about my first attempts at lacto-fermentation , with a promise to tell you more in a few months. Well, um,...

I was going to tell you about blusher mushrooms this week (disappointing, but I think that was a result of the way I cooked them) but then I...

Currently drying, I have... At the top, bilberries. These are too small for even the smaller mesh shelves at the bottom, so I made a scree...

On the same foraging expedition that I wrote about last week, I spotted a couple of white disks in a field. Are those what I think they are...

I'm fascinated by traditional methods of food preservation, from pre-freezer days. I grew up thinking* that winter food was all dried, o...