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Saturday saw the bees arrive at ours, they are a small nucleas - about the size of a rugby ball, they are still in the nuc box, though the hive is now ready. We hope to transfer them later this week. It's good having plenty of advice around from local beekeepers, though it's obvious that methods and ideas vary from person to person. We have an old boy schooling us, plus my old man chips in from...

Nipped up to the secret garden this morning to make sure the bees were flying, and took the chance to check the other produce out and pick some Gooseberries and a few Redcurrants and Blackcurrants. Having already made Berry Jelly this week,  I thought this crop would be made into a mixed berry curd. Its a lovely recipe and we have used it before. You need about 550 g of berries, any sort...

This Sunday, 19th June, the River Cottage: Meat episode will screen on Channel 4. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has always passionate about sustainable, humane, and hand-reared meat, and lots of Landsharers share Hugh’s passion, and are now rearing their own animals on Landshared land.  Moving into animal husbandry can be a daunting task. Here are some of the best blogs for information,...

Way back in September I made it down to Park Farm for the Autumn Fair. I took my little video camera and waved it around a bit. It's take a while to get round to chopping it into something watchable. But you can view it here.

http://vimeo.com/17949980

Enjoy!

Jelly Ears! Late Autumn Foraging & Delicious Mushroom Pasta! The mushroom season has very much "been and gone", but you might be lucky and still find some "Jelly Ear" mushrooms. Otherwise known as "Jew's Ear", "Auricularia auricula-judea" is a fabulous treat in a bowl of home made pasta! "Jelly Ears" usually grow on Elder tree branches and are quite unmistakable. The River Cottage...

Last night tech-savvy food lovers across the UK were found hopping around their kitchens with a pack of pumpkin seeds in one hand and an iPhone in the other as they took part in our first River Cottage cook-along, twEATs. Working with our friends at River Cottage, Central Station and NVA, we published a list of ingredients needed for the mystery recipe last week. By 7pm last night, the...

Revealed! The ingredients you will need to take part in the twitter cook-along on Monday 16th August at 7pm. Scroll down for details. If you’d like to spice up a dull Monday evening by cooking dinner with a top River Cottage chef, and thousands of online friends, then this is your chance. Landshare and River Cottage have teamed up with our friends at NVA and Central Station for a live...

This week I became the last of the Landshare ladies to take part in one of River Cottage’s fantastic courses. After Lucy_landshare learned all about bread, and Heidi had mastered fish, it was finally my turn. I love a challenge – and a pizza – so decided to take on the Build & Bake course. Could I build a clay oven from scratch and bake a perfect loaf in a day? One of the...

  This week's been non-stop for the Glasgow Harvest team here at NVA. We've got shiny new flyers. See below. We've also got Allotment posters, appearing soon on a noticeboard at an allotment near you. See below. Plus we've got a brand new partnership that's making us salivate. NVA & Central Station have teamed up with Landshare and the River Cottage to bring you twEATs, a live...

Bread.  It’s not complicated.  Some people make it every day. With ease.  Not me - you could build houses from my brick shaped, solid weight, burnt offerings.  But as of yesterday I feel empowered, ready to satisfy the bread eating masses and provide them with loaves on an almost biblical scale.  I have been on a bread making course at River...