Pickled Leeks Anyone?

This is pretty new to us but we tried it at the Courtyard Deli and Kitchen in Falmouth and loved it. So we looked up some recipes, adjusted them and present this one to you. Add them to warm salads, roasted veg, serve with meats or get caught just scooping them out of the jar! […]

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Lovely Leeks

It’s the leek’s time to shine! Well actually they have quite a lot of time in the spotlight. They are a very valuable veg in these climes, when little else is around leeks are there to bring us beautiful flavour and nutrients in these dark months. We love leeks for their versatility in the kitchen

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Plans and Planning

In October 2016 we were creating our first veggie beds and embarking on putting up our first polytunnel. Since then we’ve supplied hundreds of veg boxes to local people, attended community events, supplied local restaurants, showed scores of people around and loved (almost) every minute. We’ve received great response to our enterprise, with people both loving the

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This is Halloween…

The nights are drawing in and the storms are blowing up. Halloween marks the first festival of the Autumn season and we’ve been growing our Jack O Lantern pumpkins since early spring in preparation. As the last pumpkins go into our veg boxes we’re excited to see not only the culinary delights, but also the

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Quick Chilli con Verduras

Of course, we would have a vegetable chilli recipe! Feel free to make this chilli with meat or veggie mince. We like to make it with extra veggies and mushrooms for that meaty texture. Serve with rice or maybe try some home-made soda bread for a filling autumn feel. Adjust how much of the veggies

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Not Beetlejuice…Beetroot Juice!

Vegetable smoothies and juices are definitely on trend. Whilst offering a great way of getting your five-a-day we definitely advocate enjoying a glass of beetroot juice as part of a balance diet, rather than a meal supplement….we sure can’t weed on vegetable juice alone! But these juices are a great way of enjoying our nutrient

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Let them eat (veg) cake!

It’ll come as no surprise that we are big veg eaters here at the Real Food Garden, but sometimes we all need a sweet pick me up. After experimenting with a variety of savoury veg recipes we’ve recently turned our hand to baking some sweetmeats to sustain us through the afternoon weeding! Here are some

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Rewilding Agriculture

Recently we visited a good friend at Woodland Valley Farm near Laddock. Chris Jones farms in an inspiring way. He expects a lot from himself as farmer and guardian of the land and he expects a lot from his farming. I knew several years ago that Chris had turned his grass-dominated fields over to herbal

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Beetroot quiche anyone?

Because we love food that looks as good as it tastes we’ve grown the Chioggia and golden beetroot alongside the more familiar red beetroot. We think the golden is sweeter, the Chioggia more earthy (and downright gorgeous when sliced!) and the red is the classic. They all contain the goodness that explains why beetroot used

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