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Tag: harvest
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The Gleanings are (probably) not for you
Written for BBC Radio Wales’ ‘Celebration’ 20th Sept – harvest thanksgiving The earth is full of the things you have made. Grass for cattle, vegetables for the people. You make food grow from the earth. You give us bread that gives us strength. [Psalm 104:13-15 (adapted)] Psalm 104 is a song of praise to God…
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Harvest Festivities
This was shown at the harvest service, someone commented that it always seemed to be sunny in the vicarage garden.
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Hedgerow Harvest
Two weeks ago the elderberries looking like they wanted a week of sunshine, this week most were ripe for picking! Haws and sloes, damsons and blackberries went in the bag for good measure. Hedgerow jam is on the cards, a few sloes might find their way into some vodka by the sound of it. I’ve…
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Wheat
A cool and blustery day finds me in the front garden, harvesting the of this years wheat…
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Various Items of Food
Well it is our harvest on Sunday. The grain has been milled into flour, if all goes well… by tomorrow I should have a (literally) home grown loaf! The Chillies are now chilli marmalade, some others are almost chilli jelly. Fairtrade cadbury’s is just mmmmmm…. FairTrade Cadbury’s Dairy Milk
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Harvest – Progress
I have separated the ‘wheat’ from the ‘chaff’, just be letting the wind do its thing, you really have to do it to understand the phrase in Psalm One But now I have a nice four ounces of wheat grain, there is probably just over that left to harvest eight ounces will make one loaf,…
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Preparing for harvest
This is the first harvest of some wheat I grew this year as an experiment. I only grew a small patch, so harvesting when each stalk was ready was easy. It’s drying at the moment, but when ready I’ll be preparing it and grinding some flour. When all is harvested and prepared I hope to…