All winter we’ve been hard at work creating more than 60 raised beds, and they aren’t finished yet! When we bought the patch of ground that is now the Real Food Garden it was scrubby pasture. Prior to that it had been a potato field and from the huge numbers of flint blades we find […]
To Dig or Not to Dig Read More »
It’s cold and wet but we are still planting at the Real Food Garden. January and February are a great time for taking stock in the market garden, for repairing and preparing. But amid making our no-dig beds and, preparing the polytunnel and maintaining our woods and hedges we are happily sowing seeds too. By
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We are still finishing off the Christmas food, the left over crisps, crackers, chocolates, you know how it is, and it’s really getting dull! So I\’m sharing this very simple lunch time sandwich inspired by what my Nan is making with our fresh winter salad. At this time of year salad really gets interesting, gone
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At the Real Food Garden we’re mad about producing food that’s high in nutrients and bursting with flavour. For that we need soil that is oozing with good health and so we love seaweed. Over that last month we’ve been applying seaweed joyously to our brassica beds ready for the first plantings in a couple
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