Food friday.
So this is my new concept. It's very simple. I think that everyone should have a 'Food Friday'. In short this means dedicating some of your time on a Friday to producting your own food for the table. This could be by fishing, rabbiting, gathering wild food,bartering your skills in exchange for food or taking care of the veggie patch. As long as it means that you are actually producting your own food and it costs you nothing (or as near to nothing as you can). You may even be able barter skills for food.
Think of different ways you could achieve Food Friday...Mow next doors lawn in exchange for being able to help yourself to that abandoned rubbard in the corner of their garden.
By having a Food Friday we can drastically cut the amount of food miles our food has to come, eat more healthily, save money, learn about food and actually appriciate the food we do produce more. Too many people don't think about the food they buy and waste tons of it. This is a great way to be more in touch with our food. If everyone had a Food Friday and spent just one day (or even just a hours or two producting their own food) think about how much less food we would have to import and more closer to home. Think how much money you could save....
Please comment if you like my Food Friday idea...and spread the news. Everyone should have a Food Friday.
This Food Friday (today) I'm attending to my cabbages and pickling the green imature elderflower berries to make something very similar to capers.
Happy Food Friday!
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About Me
- Jade
- Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom
- I grew up in a healthy and wholefood family environment where we would supplement our meals with wild food. We enjoyed weekends and holidays where the whole clan would get together and gather vast amounts of whatever wild food was especially abundant. I remember buckets full of elderflowers and old margarine tubs brimming over with rose hips, sloes, bullaces, hazelnuts and blackberries. From a young age I worked on smallholdings, farms and for vets. After nearly a decade of research, writing, experimentation and with a general love of all things good and naturally free, I’m now bringing up my own child (Oskar) and support my family with real food, wild food and with rural practises. Im particularly interested in the provenance, history and stories behind the food we eat. When I grow up I'd like to be a storytelling, ethnobotanist with the ability to reconnect people to the land and the food they eat.
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