'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 giddy pick-n-mix sweetshop excitement of buying soil. Plus tips on choosing compost. Then into the kitchen with the first crops to sprout through the new soil – radishes. Try radish slammers, roast radish salad and buttered radishes.
Find the radish recipe from the podcast here:
https://www.kathyslack.com/blog/roast-radish-lentil-anchovies
And others in Kathy's cookbook, From the Veg Patch,
For more about market garden guru, Anna Greenland: https://www.annagreenland.co.uk
The compost brands Kathy mentioned are:
And the two camps in the dig/no dig debate are:
Double dig: https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/double-digging
No Dig: https://charlesdowding.co.uk
Meet Kathy:
Tuesday 10th May - supper club at The Royal Oak.
Sat 30th April 10-12 - Warwick Books
Sat 30th April 2-4pm – Blackwell’s, Oxford
Keep in touch with Kathy:
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