Guest Blog: How to make fruit leather

If like many others you hate to see your carefully grown fruit rot on the ground, and can’t find somewhere to juice, here is…
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If like many others you hate to see your carefully grown fruit rot on the ground, and can’t find somewhere to juice, here is…
Read MoreWhat a year for courgettes! They seem to all be absolutely enormous and the gardeners and allotment-holders that I speak to seem to be…
Read MoreThe Squash family are a healthy source of vitamins and minerals including fibre, folate, riboflavin, phosphorus and potassium. They can also aid in the…
Read MoreThis year there is a bumper Crop of Apples, many falling to the ground and wasted. We see this as a great opportunity…
Read MoreTesco sells dutch pork labelled as British-reared. Horse meat still in the supply chain. Jamie Oliver shows consumers how to save money by buying…
Read MoreGovernment news that kids are going to get free school meals is great for some kids and parents, but please do a proper job,…
Read MoreA big welcome to Lucy at the Smallest Smallholding. It is fantastic to see food growing on a small scale with enthusiasm for…
Read MoreTim Keates is a fan of BigBarn and used our local food map to find great food and drink producers for his epic journeys: The…
Read MoreEvery year we promote sweet corn and how important it is to get really fresh corn on the cob with leaves, rather than the…
Read MoreEat the flowers or fruitAccording to Natural-Home Remedies, zucchini is full of nutrients, good for the heart, prevents an enlarged prostate and has anti-inflammatory…
Read MoreWhat’s in that burger?Are stem cell burgers such a bad idea when we already have GM food, animals factory farmed in appalling conditions, and…
Read MoreI noticed fresh onions in the supermarket yesterday priced at the equivalent of £2,000/ton, yet my cousin only got £130/ton for his crop…
Read MoreWith the world population predicted to grow to 9 billion people, can local food help feed the world? We are told that to feed the…
Read MoreMilk is a classic example or how the ‘food industry’ can ruin a product and in this case, many of those producing it. Are…
Read MoreGreat to hear the BBC Food programme recognising all the great food producers popping up all over the UK…
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