Food Frome

APPLES TREES, APPLES, JUICE, VIRTUAL ORCHARDS…..
THIS IS A CONVERSATION THAT WAS ON EMAIL AND I FELT MIGHT GET A BROADER INTEREST IF POSTED HERE……

1ST EMAIL REFERS TO A Co-op of apple pickers and eaters who have been going from Frome to west Bradley to pick and collect:
Dear all,

Squash

We grow a lot of squash, and have experimented with many varieties, but have decided now to stick with butternuts, for their good yield of orange flesh and ease of preparation. They, along with most of the winter squash family are usually good keepers, but this year we have lost quite a few and have resorted to freezing some which is pre-prepared.

We have found several recipes that make delicious use of this vegetable or maybe it's a fruit?

The Real Cost of Food, a presentation by Kath Dalmeny of Sustain from the Somerset Food Partnership meeting last November is available for download (PDF format).

The February Food Frome Newsletter is available for download (PDF format).

Film set on an Allotment site is on at the Merlin on the 27th March

http://www.merlintheatre.co.uk/film.asp

So lets get down there!

I've got about a dozen or so going begging - well, more like forming a collapsing tower over my Microwave.

Any takers?

Tel 07812 400 838

I took these on the 23rd of December 2007, a fine frosty morning.

While there is a lot of 'non growing' pictures, it features my garden, Orchard Street, and the Welshmill Allotments.

If anyone wants to use them feel free!

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/7499905

John

Monday dinner in the 50s

Seed swap and ordering: Friday 25 Jan at 30 Broadway Frome 8pm. A joint event between Food Frome and the Land and Food faction of Sustainable Frome.

There will be a Potato Day at Doulting Village Hall on Saturday, 9th February. Last year they had a good selection of seed potatoes for sale including the blight resistant sarpos.

More information from Pennard Plants.