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Subject :Oak Tree Moth..
03-08-2010 18:01:48
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Subject :Chicken & Vegetable stir fry..
31-07-2010 09:41:10
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Recipes and Food ideas
Got some runner beans, yellow dwarf french beans, courgettes and garlic yesterday and with inspiration from resident chef Laurence Wong and Gordon Ramsey, cooked up a lovely chicken and vegetable stir fry.
Here's the Ramsey recipe. We didn't copy it exactly but the key ingredients were the oyster and soy sauce. We also added a deseeded red chilli and instead of noodles we cooked rice, forked with a bit of butter.
http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/gordon-ramsay/chicken-vegetable-stir-fry-recipe_p_1.html
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Subject :Cheesy Ratatouille..
18-07-2010 17:52:40
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Recipes and Food ideas
A recipe for our little bean but tasty for adults as well. HCFA produce used - Small Courgette, Onion, Garlic.
Cheesy Ratatouille - as a baked potato filling, with crusty french bread or maybe mixed with pasta. Serves 4 and will freeze in a lidded container or freezer bag.
Ingredients:
- 1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 2-3 mixed sweet peppers, seeded and diced
- 2 tbsp light olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and chopped
- 1 small courgette, trimmed and diced
- 3 tomatoes, chopped
- 1/2 tsp dried basil or a few fresh leaves
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- 30g (or more to taste) Cheddar cheese, grated
- pinch of salt (optional)
- black pepper
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- Combine the onion, peppers, oil and garlic in a large microwaveable bowl. Cover and cook on full power for 5-6 mins, stirring once.
- Stir the courgette into the pepper mixture, cover and cook on full power for 5-6 mins until the vegetables are tender. Stir once or twice during cooking.
- Add the tomatoes to the cooked vegetables with the basil, tomato puree and cheese. Mix well, cover and cook on full power for 2 mins. Season to taste.
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Subject :Garlic..
18-07-2010 17:16:44
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Subject :Courgettes..
18-07-2010 14:52:19
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Subject :Recipes and Food ideas..
05-07-2010 15:53:58
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HCFA Talk
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Recipes and Food ideas
With harvesting now underway does anybody have any great ideas they wish to share for recipes with the items we're growing?
I could easily create a recipe section on the site to host all of them.
Maybe start by adding your ideas to this thread. Just make it clear what food item it is your highlighting.
With the lettuce we picked on Saturday we made a lovely chicken ceasar salad that evening. Yum yum! |
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Subject :Other web sites of interest...
29-06-2010 19:44:04
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| Iain Gordon |
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Other web sites of interest.
Hi all,
Just wondered if there are any good allotment web sites,
With hint's & tips for growing and cooking, preserve's etc.
Have found this one which so far looks the best. http://www.allotment.org.uk/
Any one know of any other good sites.
Regards
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Subject :HCFA Factsheets..
17-06-2010 18:59:59
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HCFA Factsheets
I've just uploaded four new HCFA factsheets written by Alex based around some the workshops we have run this year.
The topics currently available are:
- Legumes
- Herbs
- Root Vegetables
- Soft Fruit
As we add more (Brassica's coming soon) you'll find them under the Documents menu item. Just click on Factsheets. |
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Subject :Re:"Human flourishing is an organic process"..
24-05-2010 23:20:28
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| Andriena Perez |
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"Human flourishing is an organic process"
Hey Paul thanks!,
I am glad you enjoyed it. I feel it is a key understanding not just for the children but for every each of us. The great thing is that you guys have just got the right time to step on the platform and manifest an alternative way to give others the opportunity to actively discover and maybe respond to their personal call.
I feel grateful to you all for given me that space to do so.
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Subject :Re:..
24-05-2010 23:06:06
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"Human flourishing is an organic process"
Very interesting talk Andriena and I've thought for a long time that this how education should be conducted. Find the thing the child is passionate about and nurture them to excellence. |
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Subject :"Human flourishing is an organic process"..
24-05-2010 20:28:49
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Subject :UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change..
24-05-2010 11:07:30
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UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change
The workload never stops at the HCFA but beyond the important tasks of preparing, planting, weeding and nuturing it sometimes helps to see where the HCFA fits into the bigger scheme of things.
Is the HCFA just a small voluntary movement or the beginning of something big and revolutionary? Alex quite rightly reminds me to focus on the tasks at hand but I can't help looking into the future and seeing what might be.
This report from the UN is one such vision:
UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'
Goods and services from the natural world should be factored into the global economic system, says UN biodiversity report
One paragraph that stands out and illustrates what Alex has been saying to me will be the mental breakthrough needed to allow the HCFA to flourish:
"The report will advocate massive changes to the way the global economy is run so that it factors in the value of the natural world. In future, it says, communities should be paid for conserving nature rather than using it;"
A mantra passed to me and I try to pass on is "unless we change the way money works, we change nothing"
The above report is the beginning of the change to how money works. |
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Subject :BBC - Dig In: Grow your own grub..
20-04-2010 08:19:25
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BBC - Dig In: Grow your own grub
<p>Hi All</p>
<p>You may already be aware that the BBC are running a programme called Dig In <a name="OLE_LINK1" rel="nofollow"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">(</span></font></a><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin/</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">) and they are giving away 5 packs of seeds and instructions for free. I did apply, but nothing has arrived as yet! Anyway, it seems a useful site for beginners with animated video clips and downloadable information sheets. It also has links to other gardening/grow your own websites. I plan on bringing most of the plants down to the farm once they get going so everyone can enjoy  <br />
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Regards</span></font></p>
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Subject :Iceland Volcano and local food..
18-04-2010 08:34:02
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Iceland Volcano and local food
<p>It was a beautiful day at the farm on Saturday for the herb garden workshop. Clear and warm sunny skies and not a plane in sight, and it had me thinking.</p>
<p>The longer this episode with the Iceland volcano continues the more the issue of UK food security will be discussed. What we might see is that the ability to put a lot of the food we consume in our supermarkets we must assume that a lot of conditions will be favourable to us. We might have an efficient food logistics system but it probably isn't very resilient.</p>
<p>If this episode continues or escalates further (talk is that it could set off a bigger sister volcano) then the idea of growing non-exotic foods thousands of miles away from its intended market will seem more and more irrational.</p>
<p>This is where groups like the HCFA can step in and show local and national authorities that coming together to grow food in small pockets of unused urban land and thus consequently close to its market is a practice that should be encouraged, extended and ultimately funded.</p>
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Subject :Re:Crash Course by Chris Martenson..
29-03-2010 08:47:40
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Crash Course by Chris Martenson
<p> Hi Suresh and welcome to the HCFA. </p>
<p>I'm glad your enjoying being out at the farm and strangely you and I have similar backgrounds and reasons to be involved.</p>
<p>I have an IT background and like you and joined the HCFA to get some balance to a life in front of a PC monitor. I built this website for the HCFA so if you can offer an help in future development please let us know!</p>
<p>I also responded to Alex's original call because I have been a "peak oiler" since about 2006 when it was dismissed as a crackpot theory. Now it's largely accepted as an inevitable part of our future and as you state, local food growing projects like the HCFA will become increasingly important.</p>
<p>But one aspect of the HCFA that is not advertised is the connections you can make with other members. We all have something to offer be it practical skills or knowledge. In the post-peak world, these connections will become invaluable.</p>
<p>Can I ask a favour? Can you login and add the the Chris Martenson videos to the Video Gallery? Put them in the Peak Oil category.</p>
<p>There's also another film you should try and see called <strong>Collapse</strong>. It's essentially an interview with <strong>Mike Ruppert</strong>, who brought the Peak Oil story to many people including me many years ago.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.collapsemovie.com">www.collapsemovie.com</a></p>
<p>I usually come down to the farm on Tuesdays but it would be great to meet with you and chat more about the topic.</p> |
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Subject :Crash Course by Chris Martenson..
28-03-2010 20:35:05
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Crash Course by Chris Martenson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I became an hcfa member a few weeks ago and have been on the farm a couple of Sundays. I'd been trying to grow food in my garden for a couple of seasons without much success so I when I heard about hcfa I jumped at the chance of being able to work alonside a community of people I can learn from.</p>
<p>My motivation for getting into agriculture is firstly that I like growing things (when I do eventually grow something *lol ) - I'm a programmer and after spending hours in front of a computer it's great to be able to do physical things, maybe fixing a car or stripping a door or gardening.</p>
<p>My second motivation is that I see a few storm clouds on the horizon, most notably the end of abundant cheaply available fossil fuels. Peak Oil doesn't mean that oil is running out, rather it's a realisation that the era of cheaply available oil is over. In the mid 1800's when oil was first discovered you literally had to put a short pipe in the ground and oil came gushing out, thus the energy return on energy invested (EROEI) was very high, typically 100:1. That EROEI ratio has steadily declined over the decades, to the point we're at now where explorers are having to spend enormous amounts of energy to get any energy out - the EROEI ratio is now somewhere in the region of 10:1 'ish and falling...</p>
<p>...which leads me to Chris Martenson's Crash Course, a series of 20 flash videos made by Chris in 2008 that attempt to highlight the implications of peak resources.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chrismartenson.com/">http://www.chrismartenson.com/</a></p>
<p>Chris was on a european lecture tour in February with speaking dates at the House of Commons and Euro Parliament in Brussels, I was lucky to get to see him at the LSE.</p>
<p>If peak oil theory even partly plays out then growing food locally and sustainably may be in for a major comeback.</p>
<p>I hope you get the chance to take a look at the Crash Course, even if you don't subscribe to Peak Oil you may find some of the discourse very interesting.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Suresh</p>
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Subject :Re:Introducing Myself...
11-03-2010 13:00:34
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Introducing Myself.
<p>Hi Iain, Welcome to the site and thanks for you post </p>
<p>To sum up quickly the HCFA was established to provide horticultural training opportunities to locals and to provide an urban farming and environmental regeneration project in Hounslow/Feltham. </p>
<p>Before we came on site last August, Faggs Road was abandoned to the public bar one plot. The top half (near the entrance) was also a flytip which we cleaned after hundreds of hours of work. Our efforts in the last 8 months have enabled the council to reopen the site to individuals like yourself to apply for plots. </p>
<p>As well as running training courses and workshops we will be growing all manner of fruit & vegetables to share amongst our members (depending on the time you have committed) and to hopefully sell any excess to fund our work. </p>
<p>The HCFA appeals to those who want to get involved in horticulture and growing produce but don't have the means (space) or time to manage a whole allotment of their own. </p>
<p>We have 3 workdays during the week, Tuesday, Saturday & Sunday (check the calendar). They run roughly from 10.30am - 12.30pm but members come and go at anytime. </p>
<p>Hopefully you can come down and meet me or one of the other trustees and chat more about the work. </p>
<p>In the Documents section there is a constitution which you can read and if you want to join (its free) there's a membership form.</p>
<p>Bye for now! </p>
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Subject :Introducing Myself...
11-03-2010 12:42:10
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Introducing Myself.
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I have registered for a plot at the Faggs Road site, Currently 9th on the list.</p>
<p>I would like to know more about what you are currently doing at the site, and maybe able to offer some help in getting the site rejuvanted.</p>
<p>Regards Iain.</p> |
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Subject :Website Member Registration..
04-03-2010 12:29:30
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Subject :Agroforestry..
06-02-2010 11:09:11
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Agroforestry
<p> Following on from my previous post about permaculture I have found a link to a page about <strong>Agroforestry</strong>. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.agroforestry.co.uk/">http://www.agroforestry.co.uk/</a></p>
<p><strong><em>Agroforestry is the growing of both trees and agricultural / horticultural crops on the same piece of land. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>They are designed to provide tree and other crop products and at the same time protect, conserve, diversify and sustain vital economic, environmental, human and natural resources.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em> Agroforestry differs from traditional forestry and agriculture by its focus on the interactions amoung components rather than just on the individual components themselves.</em></strong></p>
<p>In the long term I believe both Permaculture and Agroforestry will have a great influence on the HCFA's planning strategy.</p> |
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