Pasta with homemade yellow tomato sauce and nasturtium pesto by Stuart Bower (Volunteer)

Yellow tomato sauce (* means it was sourced from the Nursery garden) Pasta (usually homemade from duck eggs and 00 pasta flour – but here, dried, courtesy of Aldi) Onion Garlic* Tomato puree Yellow tomatoes* String beans* Fresh loofah* Grated Italian hard cheese A few broccoli spears Pesto* Nasturtium pesto Handful of each:    Nasturtium* Fresh basil (not entirely necessary – but…

Community Harvest & SFiCE

In 2020, STAA launched a pilot project designed to tackle food waste and address food poverty in the local area, this has developed into STAA’s Community Harvest Project. It is an initiative to sow, grow and distribute fresh fruit and veg to where it is most needed in the communities surrounding St Ann’s Allotments. As well as…

Tabbouleh recipe by Stuart Bower (Volunteer)

Ingredients  For the tabbouleh  ½ cup spring onion tops, finely sliced ½ cup nasturtium leaves, chopped ½ cup climbing spinach, chopped ½ cup parsley, chopped ½ cup mint, chopped ½ cup coriander, chopped (optional) 200g tomatoes, finely chopped  200g sweet July-harvested gooseberries  100g cooked kasha (cracked buckwheat)  For the dressing   ¼ cup olive oil Juice and zest of 2 limes 1 tsp sugar Several fresh basil leaves 2…

Nettles by Paul Freeborough (Volunteer)

It’s good to see that gardeners are experimenting with new crops and taking a serious interest in environmental management and biodiversity. Many of those interests are focused on what we eat, but there is a growing interest in what we wear. For many years we’ve become used to ‘plastic’ clothes, but traditional fibres such as…