abundance

a snapshot of the abundance we enjoyed this season - buckets of apples, sunflowers reaching skywards (now the chickens are picking out the seeds..), tomatoes overflowing into jars of chutney, beans bean beans, and little fella now cries sometimes when we round the gate of the allotment (not again mum!!!). He'll be happy that the season is all but over - but Ihave just planted out our greenhouse full of winter greens, mustards, rockets, corn salad, land cress and more. the green manures are overflowing in the rows, and carrots, leeks and parsnips, cabbages and sprouts all sitting patiently in the ground ready to be harvested. Ideally we'd like another couple of people to work onthe allotment next year, as it's too much for the 2 of us that are regularly there, but we have to convince the landowner to open it up a bit more... Today I'm heading up again to slash and crash through to some more apple trees that have been overtaken with brambles.

We went on a wild food walk this weekend, and learnt even more about the abundance that we don't have to grow - just keep an eye out for. we have buckets of chesnuts, hazlenuts stored and for roasting - elderberry cordial (dark like wine and with a honey taste) and wild spinichs, nettles and more....mmmmm