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Ali Reeves commented on Richard's event 'Supporting Farm Shops'

Hi Richard. I can't make it on Saturday, but this is something that I feel really strongly about, so would still like to be involved if any actions arise from your get together.

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Richard Loader replied to Ali Reeves's discussion 'Storing Produce' in the group Grow Local

Hi Ali - well, I haven't made a root cellar but I have spent some time investigating root cellars in Newfoundland (Canada) It's surprising just how many root cellars still exist even near the main city - once you get your 'eye in' you can see them...

October 13

Sue Loader replied to Ali Reeves's discussion 'Storing Produce' in the group Grow Local

Hi Ali, Such a shame about your onions, but it may not be warmth thats the problem....the most important thing is that they should be really dry .We dry ours on mesh racks outdoors in dry weather and bring them under cover when the weather turns m...

October 12

Ali Reeves added a discussion to the group Grow Local

Storing Produce

We have 2 freezers which are currently full to the brim with our excess fruit & veg & our garage is looking rather cluttered with sacks of potatoes, boxes of carrot & beetroot layered in sand, squashes laying about everywhere & trays of onions. Al...

October 8

Ali Reeves commented on SarahF's blog post 'Fruit Trees - Would you like one?'

And me please

October 8

Ali Reeves commented on Richard's group 'Eat Local'

Interesting to hear about the fruit leathers. We have an Aga & although the slow oven is very gentle, I think it is too warm for leathers as the recipes I have say that they should be about gas mark 1/4. I do use the oven for drying tomatoes & the...

September 29

Ali Reeves commented on Richard's group 'Eat Local'

Hi Richard How do you "dehydrate" and "revive" your tomatoes? We tend to just freeze fresh toms, but they are only really good for sauces etc when defrosted.

September 29

Ali Reeves commented on SarahF's blog post 'Suggestions for Eating Locally?'

The Mill at Gordleton has been awarded the New Forest Marque and their website looks good. We haven't eaten there for a couple of years & couldn't get in for our wedding anniversary last Saturday as they had a wedding on

September 22

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What's for Breakfast?

I'm finding breakfast the hardest thing to source locally. If we have cooked breakfast, say eggs on toast, that's fine - eggs from our chicks & home made bread. If we're in a bit of a rush (quite often), it's back to cereals - I enjoy muesli, but him indoors is a definite weetabix or Shredded Wheat kind of guy. Neither of us tend to drink tea or coffee with breakfast during the week - we both like the "zing" of orange juice to wake us up. Any suggestions on how we can "localise" our breakfas… Continue

Posted on May 19, 2009 at 12:52pm — 2 Comments

Local Flour

Does anybody know where we can buy local flour for breadmaking. I make bread every week and normally buy either Wessex flour (from Danestream farm shop) or Leckford flour from Waitrose, but would love something more local if it is available. I believe Eling Tide Mill sell flour, but do they have any outlets apart from having to travel all the way to them from Barton on Sea.

Ali

Posted on May 7, 2009 at 1:26pm — 6 Comments

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At 6:02pm on November 5, 2009, SarahF said…: Thanks for that,
Will update with more information nearer the time.
Sarah

At 10:08am on November 3, 2009, SarahF said…: Ali, Hi

RE; fruit tree planting

Please take a look at the list below and let me know which tree you would like.
If you can let me know by the end of this week, that would be great.
Many thanks
Sarah
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At 1:46pm on October 13, 2009, SarahF said…: Dear Ali
Thank you very much for volunteering to take part in our Plant a Tree day, in December.
Below is the list of trees that we have available to us, including dessert apples, cooking apples and pears.
The Apples will be a selection of 1 and 2 year, but they will both range from 4-5ft in height. Varieties:
Discovery (Eater)
Katy (Eater)
Fortune (Eater)
Greensleeves (Eater)
Egremont Russet (Eater)
Fiesta (Eater)

Grenadier (Cooker)
Bountiful (Cooker)

The Pears will all be 2 year plants, 4-5ft in height. The 3 best varieties are:
William’s Bon Chretien
Concorde
Conference

If you would like further information on these varieties, I have found a couple of websites, which describe them, although they are not our suppliers:

http://www.orangepippin.com/varietyindex2.aspx and http://www.adamsappletrees.co.uk
and for pears http://www.buckingham-nurseries.co.uk

Please could you leave a comment on my wall, with the variety and number of tree(s) that you would prefer.

We are looking into pick up points for Friday 4th December, and they will include Ringwood, Fordingbridge, Pennington and Brockenhurst, and may be Lyndhurst, Ashurst and/or Hythe.

Many thanks
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At 9:04am on October 8, 2009, SarahF said…: Ali, Hi
I will add you to our list, and get in touch soon about which type of tree you would like.
Many thanks
Sarah