I have been blessed with several surprise gifts lately. Some of them from family some from nature.
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| This is one from nature, random poppy came up in the garden |
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| Gorgeous birthday flowers from my Sister. |
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| Look at that electric blue |
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| I moved them so I could see them more often. Thank you Sister! I love them. |
Here are our very first potatos from the garden!! We had them for dinner with salad completely from the garden & some lovely chicken. Feels so good to be growing our own food again. At this stage I can only dream of a house in the country where we can have a huge vegetable garden & chickens.
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| Yummy!!! |
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| That is a 1 pound coin for perspective - about the same size as an Aus $2 coin |
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We had a fantastic day of gleaning yesterday. We had both spotted a cherry tree loaded with fruit in a small park on the way up to Stratford. So off we went with the ladder & a box for the bounty and didn't we attract some strange looks & comments! My favourite was the guy who asked if they were cherries like you get in the shop?
I recently read some statistics that discovered that only 60 % of those surveyed knew that milk came from cows!!! I believe they were surveying schoolkids but I have to say that the questions we get when gleaning, this is unfortunately a common occourence.
How can it be that we have become so removed from our food? It is truly astounding & sad.
They were very small cherries & were a little sour but after about 2 hours of pitting, we had them in the pot & cooking away into jam. It only made one jar of jam but that little jar is bursting with flavour. You should have seen my hands though, I look like I had been at the salon getting a WAGs tan!
Doing what we love
Lush x
