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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.

Friday, 6 July 2012

Beautiful local flowers

What a pleasure to be able to buy a locally grown bunch of English flowers today. I bought them from the Victorian barrow on Blackwell Lane and they are grown by two ladies in Breedon.
I also bought Blackwells veg, including the first courgettes of the season. It was tipping it down with rain though and we were having a good old moan about the affect all this rain is having on producers.
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