Another tasty soup recipe (this time from member Kate Whittle): I bought some caraway seeds yesterday for a herbal tea mixture I'm experimenting with (mint, fennel seeds, chamomile & caraway seeds - good after dinner drink) so when I saw Hugh Fearlessly's recipe for cabbage and caraway seed soup in Saturday's grauniad I thought I'd … Continue reading Cabbage and caraway soup!

From Sims Hill member Carla Denyer, who says: Confronted with huge numbers of carrots and cooking apples from Sims Hill recently, I made an autumn stew last night which was a massive hit. Serves 5 on its own, or 8 with side dishes of mashed potato (skins on) and steamed kale. Ingredients: 2 onions 6 … Continue reading Sims Hill apple and autumn veg stew

Here are a few pictures from our apple pressing at the Community Day on 8 October. Enjoy!

Many of you will remember the blue skies and shimmering heat of planting our potatoes; Well, on saturday we will be lifting them, there, potatoes. It wil be "The more the merrier" digging up this buried treasure, so if you can, come along! We will be there from 10am till 1pm, maybe longer. Please wear … Continue reading Lifting Potatoes on Saturday

Please also bring bowls, cutlery, and mugs! 'Nuff said! See you there!

Unfortunately our lovely tomatoes which many of you will of sampled have succumbed to a fungal disease know as blight. This is very common when growing them outside but it was a risk we decided to take because tomatoes are just so yummy! All is not lost however as Ollie and myself managed to rescue … Continue reading Green tomatoes for chutney!

For those of you who may be wondering how to fix all of those carrots, beets, cabbages and whatnot you are getting in your veg box, here is one idea from Mostly Soup.... (I should be able to give a review on this dish very soon!) Vegetarian Borscht serves about 6 INGREDIENTS 1/2 large or … Continue reading Vegetarian borscht recipe

What is happening on the Hill? Our Harvest Share scheme has been running successfully since July, and we will still have space for more members for this year, so please continue to help spread the word! All the veg is growing well, with the exception of those affected by the return of the wireworm! The … Continue reading Latest news from the Hill!

This Saturday's long awaited workday will consist of some much needed weeding in the garden beds and tying up our rampant cucumbers. 10:00 start, lunch at 12:30.

What is happening on the Hill? David has just cut the grass half of the field for hay, once this is baled we will mark out to plough and plant mustard to get rid of the wireworm for next year. We have had to do various fiddlings with the rabbit and deer fence to: properly … Continue reading News from the Hill!