📢 An Exciting Announcement!
Amateur gardener with a quest to take on the world of edible plants, microbes, biodiversity, food preservation, and inevitable disappointments. 🧑🌾
Hello everyone!
I’m excited to announce the publication of my new newsletter, A Plot to Hatch.
I know. It’s an English curse inflicted on anyone who has lived in the UK for more than 5 years to succumb to the obligatory puns (juegos de palabras) but if it prompts a grunt of appreciation, or at the very least, an eye roll, then mission accomplished.
Anyway, I don’t want to bore you with the title, but rather the content..
Wait, let me re-phrase that.
I'd love for you all to check out the new newsletter! See if it's something you'd enjoy browsing, or even better, subscribing to.
“Is this another bloody gardening blog?” I hear you ask.
Probably.
But I’m hoping I can offer something informative and entertaining as I delve into the world of probiotics, fungi, and fermented vegetables - a passion that sprung from my need to find ways to preserve all the tomatoes I unexpectedly grew during the Covid lockdown.
This blog is not going to be just what to plant, why and when, but also to explore how we can do our bit to create regenerative, sustainable, and healthier practices both in the garden and in the kitchen.
Some of things I expect to cover here are:
Growing vegetables and fruits organically.
Creating delicious, healthy, and easy to prepare recipes.
Exploring ways we can educate children and the wider public on the importance of good food.
Understanding gut flora and its affects on our mental and physical health.
Delving into the world of fermentation and other probiotics.
Finding effective and non-toxic remedies against pests and diseases.
Discussing the increasing interest in sustainable agricultural practices, such as regenerative farming, permaculture, no-till farming, urban farming and rooftop gardens.
Investigating soil from its microbial diversity and nutrient content, to the mycorrhizal fungi and symbiotic relationships between soil fauna, plants and fungi.
Hopefully I’m not biting off more than I can chew because there’s so much to learn about these fascinating subjects.
If this is something that interests you too, I’d love to have you along for the ride.
As the newsletter grows, I plan to include regular guest posts for anyone who has experience or knowledge of these topics, share photos, comments, and/or recipes made by the readers, and hopefully open up discussions on ways we can improve food education in the West.
You can learn more by reading up on the first post here:
If you’d like to subscribe to A Plot to Hatch, please click on the above link and click “Subscribe”.
And feel free to share this post with anyone you think might enjoy receiving the newsletters.
Thank you! 😁🧑🌾
PS: I will be continuing to post the Food and Fiesta newsletter weekly, though depending on time, this may become fortnightly… I’ll keep you posted (oops, another pun) 😏
I find your comments on food (home grown and otherwise) utterly helpful and interesting and I wish you great luck with the 'plot', which takes a lot of initial work, but gets a bit easier with time, stated from one who grew up with a dad with two huge allotments, next to his father's plots and the six pigs, in those days they were allowed to keep them there and with myself and my mother taking it in turns to go to the allotments each Sunday or stay home to cook the Sunday roast. The three younger kids used to go unaccompanied to the park next to the allotments and play in the shallow 'canal' off shoot from the large lake in the park, knowing that any adults there with their children would keep an eye on ours until I collected them at the end of the day. They were forbidden to go near the large lake and of course obeyed this order. They took sandwiches for lunch and drank water from a public water drinking fountain and loved going there and are still alive today and healthy. E.
As an agricultural journalist and a lover of puns and pickling, this is very much my jam. Consider me signed up!