Kitchen Garden

Foraging from home

magine having an oasis within all or part of your garden where you can simply go out and come back with food. With the desired hedging or soft fruits planted, you can wake up in the morning and gather fruit for breakfast. Growing plants for the interesting seeds they produce enables you to add flavour to a dish or sprinkle them on top of home-baked bread throughout the year. In the middle of making a salad, a quick dash outside can bring home a variety of different-tasting leaves that will awaken the palate and that have tonnes more nutritional value than a watery supermarket lettuce that has never seen the sun. Within

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