Home grown Rosemary By Miss K L Slomczynski

For about three years now I have been growing my own Rosemary in pots.  I have done this due to never truly having a fixed abode. That way I can take my plants with me when I move.  It also makes watering them more manageable if there is a drout.

What I am planting to do this summer is split the plant and see if in can grow it on. That way I can look at possibly selling on the offspring or seeping them for another plant that I would like in the garden.

 

Happy Easter 2019

Since January 2019 I have been looking at different ways of cooking and reducing my carbon foot print.  One of my pet hates in Single use plastics, yet everything seam to be coted in the stuff.

So I have been using my Healthy Start Vouchers to by fresh fruit and veg and not frozen.  Sadly you can not use Healthy Start Vouchers to buy tined fruit or veegeables.

So buy buying fresh I have been aiming for UK produces only to begin with and then European.  I have been looking at preserving fresh fruit and vegetables and trying different ways to give them to my children.

So far I have used the following ways, blending, drying, juicing, blanching, storing in glass jars, fridge and freezer.

I have found so of these only take a few minuets and other hours and even days.  When time is important to many of use it to more convenieant to just "shop and go" instead of home grow, and to prepare foods that are in season so that you have food for when the season change and the bad weather kicks in.

With covenant foods and shops on every corner people do not really have to think about what could happen if the corner shops where to close and food suppliers becomes rationed.

Yet I think that it is important to learn a few ways of storing and preparing food just incase the invertible happened and also so that the future generation now when food comes form the ways that is produced.

So I will continue to try and learn new cooking skills and use local produce when ever I can.

Making my own home made future juices from scratch reducing my plastic u...

Happy Easter 2019 a

Happy Easter 2019

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Happy Easter.

K & L Swan Handmade Gift Baskets

The Artisan Centre Hinckley

I visited The Artisan Centre Hinckley today and found it to be a really nice place with up and coming small craft business.  This is something that I am really interested in doing in the future.  Setting up my own small local independent business in the Art and Media.

For more information please follow the links below.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/theartisancentre/photos/?ref=page_internal

https://theartisancentre.co.uk/

https://leicestershirepress.com/2019/02/22/new-arts-and-crafts-studio-opens-in-hinckleys-artisan-centre/

April 2019

Now is the time to do a new budget plan, 

With NHS Prescription are increasing, bus fare and postal costs.  Not to mention council tax, water bills, gas and electric so now is the time to look at where you could save money and lower your over heads.  With the lighter nights and warmer weather it is time to look at planting out and maybe growing your own fruit and veg.  This can even be done in a window box, an egg box, tin can or even a plastic bottle.

Not everyone as a garden so why not look at plants that you can grow in doors on your windowsill and indoor plants so help brighten up your home and help to purify the air.

You can even go foraging providing you comply with the foraging laws and are looking at making your own homemade jams and tinctures.

WARNING IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE PICKING THEN DO NOT PICK IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Instead of using the car or public transport why not think about walking or biking to work, to visit fiends and loved ones or just for personal recreation.

COUNRTY WALKS AND WALKS ALONG THE CANAL TOWPATHS ARE A NICE WAY TO SPEND THE DAY.

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