My blogs

Blogs I follow

Occupation	Maker of Jams & pPreserves & Vegetable Grower.
Location	Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Introduction	HOME GROWN - HOME MADE. Growing, foraging, cooking and eating seasonal fresh, local and wild Irish food, particularly vegetables from our garden, in the middle of the County Kilkenny countryside, on the fertile site of Nashtown Castle. Making pickles, chutneys and preserves using as much of our own and locally foraged produce as possible. Exploring why we eat what we eat - what we ate both in historic and prehistoric times. What will we eat, in the future, when the vegetable rights police come along? Waste not, want not... Be thrifty...
Interests	Growing heritage vegetables. Asking the question - What is Irish food? When does an introduced food become Irish? Interested in what we ate in Ireland before we imported and grew South American and other exotic plants (potatoes, tomatoes, maize, chillies etc).
Favorite books	The Vegetable Garden by MM Vilmorin-Andrieux & W Robinson 1920, A Concise Encylopaedia of Gastronomy Section 3 Vegetables 1941, Full and Plenty by Maura Laverty 1960, Commonplace Book (An Irish Kitchen in the 1700s) by Mary Cannon. The Living Garden by Jane Powers 2011, Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly 1998, Encylopaedia of Agriculture 1909,