From Soil To Plate

A selection of seasonal recipes using produce grown or foraged in the garden.

Nothing is more satisfying than that first mouthful of a meal cooked using your own produce. From the soil to the plate the garden provides, here I will be sharing some of the food that can be made using the seasonal vegetables, herbs and wild food grown or foraged in the garden. And yes, I will be covering the dreaded courgette glut!

• Harnessing Herbs – an ever wild garden: Part 3.
  Of wild plants in places of transit – urban and suburban botanical regeneration; Tenacity along transport lines. Weeds are great travelers; they are, indeed, the tramps of the vegetable world.… Read more: Harnessing Herbs – an ever wild garden: Part 3.
• Harnessing herbs – an ever wild garden. Part 2.
  Chelsea Physic Garden: Explorations into a Dyer’s Garden. ‘There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.’ – Avicenna LAST time I wrote about the Mediterranean wild herbs… Read more: Harnessing herbs – an ever wild garden. Part 2.
• Harnessing herbs – an ever wild garden: Part 1.
  “My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The… Read more: Harnessing herbs – an ever wild garden: Part 1.
• Embracing the potager
  “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” —… Read more: Embracing the potager
• Toads
  The toad beneath the harrow knowsExactly where each tooth-point goes.The butterfly upon the roadPreaches contentment to that toad. – Rudyard Kipling SPRING has arrived in the Pumphouse Garden and with… Read more: Toads
• The Pumphouse Garden
  A community project.