Earlier this month Anton Rosenfeld led an online workshop for the Virtual Dragon Café looking at multicultural food production in the UK. We had a presentation with questions and also heard recordings of various growers telling their stories about food growing in their home countries and when they came to the UK. You can read […]
Throw Some Water In – 1
Shelley (from the kitchen) and husband Mike, particularly liked this week’s Song of the Week … “Throw Some Water In” by Lee ‘Scratch‘ Perry. It offers good, timely advice on car, body and garden maintenance … Although we weren’t too sure about “drink some fish tea” towards the end of the song. Yuk! Here are […]
Sprouting Lentils
The windowsill is perfect for growing lovely raw sprouts from lentils, mung beans or chickpeas. It’s easy to do and it’s lovely to see them change over 3 or 4 days. You can’t beat them in a crunchy salad!
Lettuce Grow – Window Sill Gardening
I’ve taken inspiration from Linda’s ‘weekly adventure’ idea to share some piccies of my home growing efforts. I had some seeds in compost from the Garden Organic ‘Let it Grow’ session back at The Dragon Café in March and started them on my windowsill before moving them into a bigger pot I had. That was […]