What it’s all about
For some it’s about putting food on your plate, some it’s so they know where their food comes from, for some it’s being able to eat organic, some the social, some for the fitness and others it’s just having that little retreat away from daily life.
For me, it’s definately all about the eating. My wife has made loads of jam this year – it’s her first attempt and whilst a large amount hasn’t set she’s finally excelled herself with a (pictured) raspberry and gooseberry jam.
I’d love to say the gooseberries and raspberries came from the plot, but they didn’t – mainly from the inlaws back garden, but it’s still only got a couple of food miles at best and the jars are reused from our daily routine.
The other picture shows an evening vegetarian meal we made – the centerpiece was processed Quorn (quorn steaks with a goats cheese and cranberry topping breadcrumbed!), but the rest was from the allotment (carrots, potatoes and courgette).
It should be noted that often you’ll end up digging up potatoes to find a lot of very, very small potatoes. I like to boil them and mash them with a bit of milk, butter, salt n’ pepper. No need to bother with this peeling m’larky – the skin is full of nutrients and I’ve never seen the point of spending endless hours peeling just to get silky smooth mash. Give your mash some texture!
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