Adventures in Food

Last weekend I went on a family outing to Sussex to see where my brother works at www.commonwork.org as they had an open day. It was fascinating and inspiring, I discovered: - nettle tea goes clear when you add lemon drops - how to bodge a rounders bat - when to collect woad for dyeing - a new drink called kefir - its fizzy yoghurt and its yummy. I have been craving it since trying the free sample - that all the sheeps wool in the UK ends in a single processing plant, I think its in Huddersfield - but do correct me - and from there it gets auctioned once a week to highest bidders. - how to make artists charcoal - that buddleia makes a good yellow dye even after the flowers are dead I also got some beeswax, a diblet, milk fresh from the cow, honey, sunshine, a delicious lunch of mutton, organic beetroots, a lesson in wood turning from a delightful man called Bob, some fresh willow charcoal, and a lift there and back from mum and dad. Super nice man who swapped c...

Ever wondered what you would eat if oil ran out tomorrow? Well now is your chance to find out! Join us* for a week of eating only local organic food, free from plastic packaging to highlight to government that they need to act now to reform our food system Between Saturday 6 and Sunday 21 September, during Organic Food Fortnight and when food is at its most abundant in the UK, we ask you, for one week, to only eat food from a selection of the following sources: a. Organically grown UK food without plastic packaging – if it is organically grown on British soil, it qualifies, but obviously the more local the better. Plastic packaging is out. b. Foraged food – food growing wild and abundantly all over the UK – free rich pickings! c. Self-grown food – any food you, your friends or family ha ve grown. Advice and support on sourcing food will be given throughout, and all participants will be encouraged to keep a diary of their experiences over the week on our website, not only to share expe...