Trialling and collecting (mostly food) plants which grow well in Irish conditions or might be otherwise interesting. Producing seed from them to increase the choice of varieties available to growers and gardeners.
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Spiced Pumpkin & Apple Chutney
My first attempt to ‘collaborate with chefs’ involved begging my friend Yola, who is very handy in the kitchen, to help me deal with more squash than I knew what to do with. I had quite a few kilos which needed using up as I had just screened my squash harvest. After being inside for…
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Cultivating Sea Beet
Sea beet (Beta maritima) is the wild crop relative to which all beet crops owe their lineage – beetroot, sugar beet, fodder beet and chard/leaf beet. As well as being the progenitor of these cultivated food plants, sea beet is one of the most widely gathered wild foods wherever it is found, a region stretching…