Radishes in a Rush

This year, one of our early harvest gluts was radishes, which all came in a rush, despite the weather.

So for the first time at The Secret Acre, Emma tried her hand at pickled radish. Continue reading

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August’s Bounty – Pass the Preserving Pan!

No sooner had we made our ‘Beauty Bath Spiced Apple Chutney’, than August’s harvest arrived en masse.

Suddenly every spare minute was taken up in the kitchen with the preserving pan. The Blaisdon Plums were our biggest crop, with Emma heroically creating over 100 jars of various plum based jams and chutneys for the storeroom. Continue reading