Flavoursome Veggie Sausage Roll Recipe
These delicious meat-free “sausage” rolls were such a hit at a Planting Up garden work party picnic that we just had to share it…
Our First “Field Trip”
This year our Planting Up group is doing things a bit differently. Instead of spending our volunteer garden work parties in our forest garden plot at Westbury, we’ve decided to schedule some of our days together on “field trips” where we go and visit other sites of interest to see what we can learn from…
Getting a March on the Forest Garden
It’s lovely to see how all the wet weather of March and sporadic bouts of sunshine have made the forest garden green again. We’re seeing new shoots emerging all over the garden. The photos below show how we were able to get a few final leaves to eat (before it goes to seed) from the…
Spring’s first flowers are edible: Pickled magnolia petals
As some of the first blossoms we see this time of year, look out for Magnolia flowers among all the bare branches you see this spring. Because of our clayey soils in Milton Keynes, you’ll typically find Magnolia trees growing in pots or standing proud in rich (slightly acidic) soils of people’s gardens. So if…