Land to Mouth
Cooking and preserving home.grown and foraged food,
Favourite Cucumber Recipes
This year, we’ve had a lot of cucumbers. We use them in salads and give extras to the chickens and these are my favourite cucumber recipes. Spicy marinaded cucumbers For two people as a starter: 3 small cucumbers peeled and…
Winter in Rural Galicia
This is the second part of a video that I found yesterday. I hardly ever look at YouTube, so it is a surprize when it gets something right. I put the first part here. I don’t know where…
Who is In Charge of the Food Culture?
Food culture is replacing agriculture, even though it might not look that way right now. We are expanding into awareness of a much greater reality, in which agriculture is replaced by an organic food culture. We are going through some…
Yin and Tonic for Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty is a reference to our innate ability to feed ourselves, whatever the conditions. This talk is about how we are dealing with the food control agenda, by putting Nature in charge of our diets, to hook-up our biological…
The Art of Courgette
Last year we were over-run by courgettes, aka zucchini. My seeds had got mixed up and my squash turned out to be courgette. I gave away as many plants as I could, but still ended up with 10, which is…
Easy Five Star Chicken Coop
Greetings! My name is Zubynelgenubi, Zubi to my friends. I’m a gallo piñeira and I’m the king of the five star chicken coop, that was made by my valet Mister D, following my instructions. Mister D had a hard time…
Wild Juicing
Foraging for weeds Whatever the weather, our day starts with walking the dogs and (sometimes with cats in tow) and sometimes foraging for weeds. We are lucky to live in an area where there is no intensive farming, no crop…
Rosehip syrup
This week I made rosehip syrup. Our hedgerows have masses of wild roses and at this time of year the hips are bright red. Rosehips are an excellent, natural and local source of vitamin C through the winter, much of…
Hay making
We’ve got a push along petrol mower and several fields that needed mowing and we were wondering how this would get done. Or perhaps we would just let the fields grow for a while. Then a neighbour showed up. Actually…
