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This is our spanking new Resources section where we share useful info related to self sufficiency.

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Gardening and Recycling hints and tips This PDF file was compiled by Ruthdigs from comments and forum posts submitted here.

Great thanks to Ruth. Read her blog.

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Love food hate waste

Good hen & eggs advice

Wood & Pizza Oven Forum

How to build a clay oven

Useful projects

Kitchen Garden forum

Best site for tips

DIY food dehydrator

Great How To Dehydrate site

Good frugality website

Home composting

75 Things You Can Compost, But Thought You Couldn’t

Click here to listen to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (England) interviewing Fiona, the Cottage Smallholder.

Recipes and Articles

Recent Comments

Beebee3 on Sloe and Bramley Apple Jelly RecipeSo pleased to have stumbled on your Bramley and Sloe jelly recipe..I’ve just made 2 kilos of sloes into gin, then picked more sloes to do the same aga…
Beebee3 on Easy Morello Gin recipe. Fruit liqueurs.Looks lovely. My mother did morellos in brandy, they were fabulous and you could just eat them with a spoon as well as drinking the brandy!
WILLH20 on Two recipes: Wild Damson Gin and Sloe Gin recipesThanks for the recipe. I'll try Wild Damson Gin in september
Daphne Jackson on Duncan’s pickled nasturtium seeds recipe (UK capers)And the leaves, or flowers, make fab pesto. There isn’t a crop to touch them!
Debbie on Green tomato chutney recipeI’ve just made this chutney and it’s delicious, the citrus ingredients work really well and overall there’s a great depth of flavour with a taste of s…
Terri on Old roses: Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’I have a Rosa lutea, it must be 20 years old now, covering a pergola & taking over a Magnolia nearby. The main stem is as thick as a tree trunk…
Summer Meadows on Walnut vinegar recipeSorry further to my last reply I see you were going for the infused vinegar recipe - I was referring to pickled young walnuts. I am guessing your waln…
Summer Meadows on Walnut vinegar recipeMost recipes say to soak in brine for a week, then rinse and soak in brine for a second week before putting them in a jar with hot vinegar. The muddy…
Nyge on Setting up the drip feed water watering system for the summerDrip feed is the best at about 2 drips/second. - you can run 100 drippers on a line ... feed the water to a line connection via a short large diameter…
Teresa Costanza on Angela’s recipe for elderflower champagnehello thanks for the recipe,my batch is looking great. I have had it bottled in a cool place for 2 weeks now. do I move it all straight to the fridge…

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