We’ll be back on TV this coming spring, with more from River Cottage, and if you or any of your friends are growing or producing your own food in a surprising way or in a challenging or unusual place, we'd love to hear from you.
We are looking for stories to feature in our coming Spring Series and would like you to tell us about what you're doing to Grow Your Own!
Using our new community site, please sign-up and set-up a blog and tell us what you're up to - we'd like to see pictures, video and or just good old fashioned words.
We're going to set-up a thread in the forum here and you'll be able to discuss your plans, issues etc. with our wider audience, so please, sign-up and get involved.
Hi, I run food smoking courses in London and Milton Keynes bringing this artizan craft to the people and working to promote low impact living and sustainability in my approach to this work by demonstrating simple accessible ways to achieve really professional results. I would love to host HFW for a days food smoking.
If the film crew fancy a trip to the continent we would be glad to have them visit us here, see us as we face the challenges of veg growing half way up a mountain! On heavy clay, in the bottom of a valley & in a different language!! Could be the start of 'River Cottage International' or maybe 'RC goes global' ?? Please feel free to contact us.
We went from 2 allotments in Plymouth to 5 dry acres in Australia. Good times at the moment with the wet season - we can run 25 head of Dorper/Merino/Dorest cross sheep on our property. This will drop down to about 7-8 head if we return to drought. We keep happy hens and grow what veggies we can (we have poor soil here that takes much to improve) and also fruit trees, chestnuts and olives.
We miss the reliable Devon rain and rich soils.
PS thanks to Hugh for signing a River Cottage bag for my parents a the new RC HQ in Plymouth - sadly, the new HQ wasn't open when we visited in September 2011.
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Bonjour! Callum Train here in France for the year running http://www.chateaulebreuil.com not far from Bordeaux. Despite the oppulent surroundings I am paradoxically living the Good life Tom and Barbara style and will be spending the year here without any income or wages; sustaining myself by way of raising chickens and living off a vegetable patch within the grounds (planting all the usual suspects as well as artichoke, the famous Marmande tomato and anything unusual I can find). I have already made tea, coffee and confitures from forraged wild berries, I have a small rifle for shooting rabbit, squirrel, ragondin, pigeon etc and I also have access to plenty of dandelions, nettles, vines, brambles and a fig, apple, cherry and pear tree too. Whilst my 5-a-day is the main concern I also have access to an old barrel press so some home-brews are on the cards methinks! If things get dire then there's a couple of horses to be had ;-) but I'm hoping to pursuade the owner to let me keep a boar for the summer. I have plans to expand the chicken coup to include ducks, craft some kind of "frogery" in an adjacent stream and a "snailery" in the cellar too but whatever happens I plan to have some fun doing it all and I will be referring to River Cottage HQ for constant help.
On an altruistic note; I am a registered UN Volunteer but presently I am supporting the Homecoming Scotland concept and hoping to facilitate introductions between communities in Scotland and France this year. I am blogging for a couple of government initiative websites - one of which attracted 984,458 hits last month alone. I am therefore hoping to generate a lot of interest in the cultural exchange between Scottish and French Communities and being a Jersey born lad the next step will be Jersey, English, Irish and Welsh communities too. The icing on the cake would be the involvement of River Cottage so if the team fancies a trip to France I can put you up in the chateau (no charge of course!) Good luck to everyone - may your crops be bountiful. Salut!
hey i live in taunton in a school where my dad is a house master
i keep two garden hens and i am hoping to get some quails (im also hoping to get some more hens)
we have started growing veg this year in the small space we have by fencing it off from the hens
will free
freew@queenscollege.org.uk
Greetings to all,
This year is going to be somewhat different to most others, I have decided to leave London at last and head back to Sussex, From May I will be relocating to a beautiful woodland with a river nearby and start building my new home: a Tree house.
I will be living in the treehouse for 6 months, surviving off mainly wild food (my only meat source) and a small yet productive veg patch which I am digging this week.
The tree house will be built from a mix of recycled/reclaimed/natural materials and I will have a central heating unit/wood burning stove put together from an old steel drum.
Having studied Archaeology at University, got up to a wealth of survivally goodness over the years (including 3 months on a lovely desert island as a survival expert for chaneel 4) and cut me teeth in some interesting kitchens across the capital, its time to see if we can still live the hunter-gatherer lifestyle (with a little of the neolithic thrown in) in 21st century Britain.
To follow my progress and for more info on the project, please visit: www.huntergathercook.typepad.com
Nick.
Hi. I work for Barnardos as the team leader for the Play Ranger Project in Bournemouth and Poole. We ahave secured a grant from the council to create a community garden project on a housing estate in Bournemouth. The garden is to be led and worked on by the young people who live on the estate and we are trying to establish a mentoring programme with the local allotment comitee. The estate does not offer much for young people or the residents as yet however we are hoping that the chance to grow their own veg, hold a bbq party and give young people the chance to work within a budgett alongside the council will help to create positive activities for the young people and the residents.
Hi,
Thought I would drop by and mention our project to set up a new allotment to reduce our councils 110 people waiting list. I'll blog it shortly, we are in Crowborough in East Sussex and are currently trying to set up an allotment on a 16 acre site bought by the town council - we have great plans, trying to encourage organic, possible composting toilets, ecological planting to encourage wildlife, apiary and the list goes on. Checkout the blog and take a look at http://www.owlsburycommunity.org
Graham