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This is an attempt to document my efforts to grow and eat locally around Melbourne, Derbyshire. My family own a nine acre smallholding on which we grow fruit and vegetables and keep bees, and chickens, but that won't feed us alone, so the idea is to get to know our local produce and to see how easy/hard it is to follow a diet that is local to within 30 miles. The fun part is also trying some new (easy) recipes that use home-grown and local produce. Feel free to comment, send in recipes, and share your experiences of buying and eating locally.

Saturday 19 May 2012

Coq au vin

The best use of my home-made rhubarb wine from last year is to use it in cooking. It's getting drinkable now but I made enormous quantities. The coq au vin used Chantry Farm Shop chicken, local onions, our own garlic and lots and lots of home-grown herbs, which are all looking really healthy this year after a mild winter and lots of rain this spring. The parsley didn't die over the winter so we've got lots to harvest now before the new parsley seed that I sowed comes through. The next day I made a lovely looking chicken pie with the leftovers which I forgot to photograph.

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