Self-sufficient in Suburbia

We grow our own food in a suburban village in the North East of England. Follow us as we keep up the battle to be self-sufficient.

Saturday, 5 April 2025

Grass

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  The grass is growing. That means lots of free food for the goats. All I have to do is pick it. I gathered 2 sacks today. They loved it.

In the wrong field

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  One of the fences on our farm had fallen over. Result: some of our sheep wandered into the field belonging to the neighbouring stables. It...
Thursday, 13 March 2025

Pan Haggerty

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  Another of the meals we had recently gave us the opportunity to use some of last year's surpluses. Pan haggerty is made from potatoes,...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

More pigeon cooking: toad in the hole

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  One of my favourite meals is toad-in-the-hole. It's a great recipe for using up our goats milk, our eggs and the pigeon meat we have i...

Omelette

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  We now have a large surplus of eggs. That means omelettes are now appearing in our diet on a regular basis. Typically we use about 9 eggs ...

More pigeon cooking: burgers

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  We've been doing a great deal of cooking with pigeon meat recently. This pigeon burger was delicious, especially with some of our home...

Redcurrant vodka

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  This redcurrant vodka was made last year using the berries left over after making redcurrant jelly. A rather pleasant fruit liqueur it has...
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