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101 days ago

Photo Article: Every night is preserving night at the Welsh Hovel now

What you see below are radishes from the garden pickled in a sweet and sour South East Asian source. They will be served up at Sharestock but with another, larger, jar to pickle tonight and one other done a few weeks ago, this should also last the family through to Christmas. And that was not the only preserving.

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1130 days ago

Photo Article from the Welsh Hovel - harvesting and cooking the dog's arses

The thing with dog’s arse fruit, or the Nottingham Medlar, is that you must wait till the fruit are rotting to harvest. That they now are and so as a half term treat, Joshua, myself and Jaya went to harvest the one tree we planted a couple of years ago in the new orchard. It is only about five foot tall so even Jaya could pick the fruit from the lower branches.

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