'Tales From the Veg Patch' is a new podcast by award-winning food writer, cook and veg grower, Kathy Slack. Come through the garden gate for 15 minutes of rural tranquillity as Kathy shares uplifting stories about growing and cooking her own food and the healing powers of gardening for mental health.
There’s 'The Love Story of the Overlooked Leek'; an essay on 'How to Buy Dirt'; and, musings on 'The Morals and Mysteries of Failing to Catch a Mole'. Plus lots of eating, weekly recipes and ideas for making the most of the harvest.
Tales, stories and essays to reconnect you with the food you eat and get you back to the land. Every Thursday.
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Show music: Tom Dyson
Cover pic: Stephanie McLeod
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'Tales From the Veg Patch' is a new podcast by award-winning food writer, cook and veg grower, Kathy Slack. Come through the garden gate for 15 minutes of rural tranquillity as Kathy shares uplifting stories about growing and cooking her own food and the healing powers of gardening for mental health.
There’s 'The Love Story of the Overlooked Leek'; an essay on 'How to Buy Dirt'; and, musings on 'The Morals and Mysteries of Failing to Catch a Mole'. Plus lots of eating, weekly recipes and ideas for making the most of the harvest.
Tales, stories and essays to reconnect you with the food you eat and get you back to the land. Every Thursday.
FOLLOW:
Show music: Tom Dyson
Cover pic: Stephanie McLeod
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week the tomatoes need putting out. Kathy has grown them from seed this year which is a bit of a labour of love. She used to grow tomatoes from seed all the time before discovering the convenience of plug plants. Though the story of how she was converted to plug plant tomatoes is not an altogether happy one. As you will now found out….
This is an extract from Kathy's cookbook, From the Veg Patch, where you’ll find many more recipes for your tomato harvest, including the Tomato-Lovers Tomato Salad with Anchovy Breadcrumbs Kathy reads in this episode. Should your seedlings happen to make as far as adulthood that is….
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