Recipe of the month – April Spinach Filo Pastry
Tamara: If you like Spanakopita (spinach pie) – which is often served in Greece, and many Eastern European countries too – then you will love this vegan alternative.
Entries by Tolhurst Organic
To plough or not to plough – That is the question
This comes up regularly at any famers meeting you may be attending. The plough has been the primary instrument of agriculture ever since the humans began the noble craft of growing food in one place, as opposed to wandering around to hunt and gather your rather unpredictable source of nutrition. The plough has been with […]
Cauliflower Antipasti
Our peeps love this preserve! I make sure I keep back a couple of jars for our crew meals together, otherwise they fly off the shelves at the farm shop. We make preserves when we wake up to a glut, and cauliflowers often come ready at unexpected times, or all of them at the same […]
Recipe of the month
At the farm, we often have spontaneous team lunches. This way we get to connect with each other, whilst nourishing our bodies and minds with the veg we harvested earlier that day. Fresh is best! You need to be able to whip up a quick lunch, when you’re feeding hungry people that do physical labour, […]
Hardwick residents supporting, and supported by, Tolhurst Organic
Today I am writing about people who live at Hardwick and are involved directly in our farm’s operations. Of course, there are many more Hardwickians and beyond, who have made invaluable contributions to how our farm runs. Volunteers, neighbours, nearby villagers, family and friends supported us at large public events and work parties. They all […]
Purple Sprouting Broccoli with a smoky almond sauce
While spring is playing hide and seek, the soil is slowly warming up. One of the many treats of spring must be Purple Sprouting Broccoli or PSB. Their tender stems and nutty flavour is a must for any food aficionado! In this recipe, we briefly boiled and pan fried them, and paired with a smoky […]
February highlights
”February for me is the start of the growing year. – says Tolly (Iain Tolhurst It’s like the dawning of the crops, which will be coming forward for the following twelve months. This is the time when we start to think about sawing and planting. It’s also the time when days start to get […]
My favourite month at the farm – January
By Tamara Schiopu @aka_mrs_tolhurst I prefer January. Despite all the “blues”, and storms, and mud, and days shorter than you can notice… After frantic December veg orders, packing and Christmas shopping, January feels like a long stretch of laziness and relaxation. The fire is kept roaring for most of the day. The crew come thrice […]
Growers in crisis?
by Iain Tolhurst, M.B.E. (Tolly) I’ve been around the organic small (ish) scale organic growing community now for five decades and have seen a great many changes over that time. Twenty years ago, my concerns were that there were almost no young persons taking up the batten to continue with the next generation of growers […]