Feast!

A long day on the plot, digging, weeding, picking and planning. Followed by dinner with Cate, Malcolm, Hanna, David and Sarah. Mostly home grown. Baked potatoes, sprouting broccoli with lemon and garlic, hot tomato and onion chutney, mixed leaf salad, elderberry and apple chutney. And some highly processed cream cheese from the supermarket for good measure, and to buffer our slow descent into veganism.

We made pie out of our share of Abundance Apples.

Malcolm gets the credit for the pretty stars and moon decoration.

All done! Stuffed. Recipes will follow.

Carrots and tatties

I'm gonna grow carrots. I'm going grow orange carrots, red carrots, blue carrots, long pointy ones, short round ones and some of those huge amazining conjoined octuplet carrots you only get at the farmers market*.

And potatoes. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of them. And beetroot and parsnips.

Then I'm going to eat them all until I burst apart at the ears and nipples (my mum told me that's where the joins are). And then I'm going to eat some more.

*(the photo to the right isn't an actual carrot, by the way, it's a man in a carrot costume, but that's the only way I could give you an accurate idea of the size my carrots are going to end up)