Day 276: some beans

The remaining borlotti will be sufficient for little more than a particularly diminutive casserole…

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How to grow your dinner

Lockdown happened, and interest in growing your own food exploded. No-one’s going to become self-sufficient over night, but being less reliant on vulnerable systems seems more attractive by the day. Which is all very well if you have acres, but what if you garden is a balcony, or a window ledge? With this book published today, Claire Ratinon shows us how to grow fresh, exciting vegetables in the smallest of spaces.

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The Gardens, weeds & words podcast, Series 2 Episode 8

A chance to discuss our relationship to the land and the food it can produce with organic grower Claire Ratinon, whose urban veg growing exploits began on a New York rooftop and continued in London’s East End. I’m introduced the concepts of the “delectability of vegetables”, food-as-love, and what it feels like to be a grower of colour.

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