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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 26 May 2012

Runner beans

Me and the boys planted out beans today over a trench that hubby dug. The trench was filled with brassicas that had gone to seed, newspaper and cardboard. When the trench is filled in it's much better at retaining water, which beans love. We try and water as little as possible and use only rainwater from water butts, which means that any water retaining measures are also labour saving.
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