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Land to Mouth

Cooking and preserving home.grown and foraged food,

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    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…

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    What we grow in a year

    It took us a while to workout what we needed to grow in a year so, if you are new to gardening, this might be useful. Our garden provides 50 – 70% of our food. We could grow more and…

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    Strawberry Yields Forever

    Why grow your own strawberries? We have dedicated one of our seven raised beds entirely to strawberries and I feel happier with every berry we eat. Strawberries can be a superfood rich in health-promoting compounds like folic acid, vitamin C,…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Raised Veggie Beds

    2nd year raised beds This is our second year with raised beds for the vegetable garden and I couldn’t be happier with them. For us, with our unrelenting clay soil.the raised beds are more productive in their second year than…