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What don't chickens eat?
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Jane Rose replied to Ali Reeves's discussion 'What don't chickens eat?'"We have found that they tend to leave Parsnips and Dahlias alone - don't ask how we found out!! Taller Blackcurrant bushes and Cherry trees are also good but they eat redcurrents. Rhubarb survives but the leaves are poisonous - our biddies…"
New Forest Local Food Summit at Treehouse Study Centre, Countryside Education Trust, Beaulieu
September 30, 2010 from 9:30am to 2pm
Have you being trying to buy local food? Reasonably priced and of good quality?Having problems accessing land to grow your own food?We are hoping to raise some of the issues of buying and growing local food and also start to find solutions to those issues.On Thursday 30th September, with the backing of the NPA, District Council and a few other local names, we are running a Local Food Summit. Trying to get together, anyone and everyone in the forest associated with local food. Its for a morning,…See More
"Thanks Christine. We have some brambles growing in the run and whilst they don't eat the leaves, it's really funny to watch them jumping up to pick the blackberries when they are ripe. They also love lettuce leaves. We put some shrubs in…"
Christine Stone replied to Ali Reeves's discussion 'What don't chickens eat?'"Our chickens tend to leave brambles/blackberry leaves alone. They also don't eat lettuce leaves if we put them in with the usual scraps, but I've never tried them with lettuce plants in the ground."
"Great Idea Sarah. We don't have anything yet, but fingers crossed. Could we include things made with our produce like jams - we had absolutely loads of blackberry jelly & blackcurrant jam last year, but were sadly short of raspberry (my…"
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What don't chickens eat?
We have given in and decided there is no point trying to get grass to grow in our chicken run. However this does leave us with a rather unsightly area right outside our patio doors. I thought we could just turn it into a bed and grow plants that would give the chickens some shade, whilst leaving them the earth to turn over and investigate. Any ideas for some plants that they will leave alone(that won't do them any harm either); useful/edible to humans would be an added bonus? AliSee More
"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."
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…"
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. Already lost most of our onions when we checked them last weekend & think our garage is probably too warm especially in this milder weather. Has anyone tried to build a small root cellar & if so, how successful has it been?AliSee More
"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…"
"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."
"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"
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What's for Breakfast?
Posted on May 19, 2009 at 12:52 2 Comments 0 Likes
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… Continue
Local Flour
Posted on May 7, 2009 at 13:26 6 Comments 0 Likes
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.
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- At 14:45 on July 15, 2010,
SarahF said… - Ali, Hi,
Glad to see you have signed up to our Local Food Summit.
If you would like me to email you the invite and acceptance form, please just email me at duncan dot sarah at virgin dot net.
We had a meeting last week about the summit agenda a spaces are filling fast, its getting quite exciting.
Look forward to seeing you there,
Sarah
- At 19:47 on November 26, 2009, SarahF said…
- Cont'd
All photos and personal information will be shared with Guinness World Records for adjudication purposes. Further details on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/treeoclock/
Diggning the Hole: You can dig the hole for your tree, before next weekend, which should speed up the planting process. If you want some more information on digging the hole, please find our sheet attached or watch Monty Don on Gardener's World, link from our website:
http://www.newforesttransition.org/index.php?/archives/300-Tree-Oclock-Time-for-Trees.html
Many thanks
Sarah
- At 19:47 on November 26, 2009, SarahF said…
- Ali, Hi
Thank you so much for volunteering to plant and look after the apple and pear trees funded by the New Forest Food Challenge. Below are some final details for next week.
You will be picking your tree(s) up from me:
Sarah Fawkes, 5 Lodge Road, Pennington, Lymington, Hants, SO41 8HH 01590 675613 07866 560458
The trees will be available to you to pick up on Friday 4th December. Please could you contact me before you leave to pick up, just to check I am around, as I am doing it from my own home.
The aim is to plant the trees in the hour between 11 am - 12 noon on Saturday 5th December, as part of the BBC Breathing Spaces Record attempt. In order to qualify for the record:
Plant your tree: between these times
Take a photo: Make sure the time and date are set correctly on your digital camera or camera phone. Then get someone to take a photo of you planting your tree or take a before and after shot if you are on your own. Remember; if you are planting more than one tree make sure you get photos of you planting them all.
Email the photo: The BBC will need evidence to prove you have planted the tree so they can verify the record with Guinness. This is their list:
Set the correct time and date on your camera.
The photo must be taken between 11am and 12 noon GMT - we will be checking this information from the photo.
Email us the photo - do not crop or change the photo, because this will change the date and time on the photo.
Email your photo to us at breathingplacestrees@bbc.co.uk, by 12 noon on Friday 11th December 2009.
Tell us what type of tree you have planted and the full postal address of your site, including postcode, so make sure you include this in your email.
Our extra note, for child protection reasons - NO photographs of children doing the planting, may be a welly or a hand, but definately, NO FACES.
To be cont'd
- At 18:02 on November 5, 2009, SarahF said…
- Thanks for that,
Will update with more information nearer the time.
Sarah
- At 10:08 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 13:46 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 9:04 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
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