The Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk Tue, 15 May 2012 16:37:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Third week of May, seventh week of the “Hungry Gap” http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/05/third-week-of-may-seventh-week-of-the-hungry-gap/ http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/05/third-week-of-may-seventh-week-of-the-hungry-gap/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 16:37:02 +0000 joanne http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/?p=1532 This week’s box, we’re still in the Hungry Gap:

- Spring cabbage

200g Swiss chard

- 125g small beetroot

- 125g beetroot leaves

- 125g salad leaves

- 150g sprouting broccoli

 

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- 2 small lettuces

- 180g spinach

- 200g Swiss chard

- 100g bunch of radishes

- 150g sprouting broccoli

- spring cabbage

]]> http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/05/second-week-of-may-sixth-week-of-the-hungry-gap/feed/ 0 May Bank Holiday Working Party http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/05/may-bank-holiday-working-party/ http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/05/may-bank-holiday-working-party/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 08:46:28 +0000 richard http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/?p=1500 Continue reading →]]> Lots to do preparing for the new season, so  we had an impromptu working party on the May Bank Holiday Monday, and the weather was (mostly!) kind. A great day – lots of people sowing seeds, weeding, palnting our and construcing beanpole supports! Thanks to all who came along

Constructing new beanpole structures

 

Beanpoles

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Share food and drink May social evening, early on

The first Tuesday of the month is our social evening at the Fat Cat pub, Spring Road Ipswich. The Fat Cat is a lovely friendly real ale pub that supplies plates, knives and forks in the week to its customers. We shared a lovely meal of all kinds of dishes from the fabulous Prawn Jambalaya cooked by Jon and Debbie to Joanne’s “Hungry Gap Greens” pasta, not to mention samples of roast pork from the Acorn Antic pig club.

Lots of people came along this month, which was lovely, we needed three tables at one point of the evening! As usual a few of us were there until closing time…!

Tom, Kirsty and Kate at the bar later on

]]> http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/05/may-social-evening-fat-cat-pub/feed/ 0 First week of May, fifth week of “the Hungry Gap” http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/first-week-of-may-fifth-week-of-the-hungry-gap/ http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/first-week-of-may-fifth-week-of-the-hungry-gap/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:29:22 +0000 joanne http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/?p=1493 In the boxes this week, still in the hungry gap:

- 200g Swiss chard

- Spring cabbage

 - 60g radishes

-150g sprouting brocolli or a cauliflower

- lettuce

- 100g salad leaves

]]> http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/first-week-of-may-fifth-week-of-the-hungry-gap/feed/ 0 Fourth week of April, fourth week of “the hungry gap” http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/fourth-week-of-april-fourth-week-of-the-hungry-gap/ http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/fourth-week-of-april-fourth-week-of-the-hungry-gap/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:42:37 +0000 joanne http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/?p=1488 Continue reading →]]> In the veg boxes this week, fourth week of the hungry gap:

- 2 lettuces

- 1 spring cabbage

- a cauliflower or 140g sprouting broccoili

- 200g spinach or 250g Swiss chard

- 60g radish or 100g salad leaf or 60g spring onion

 

 

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- a lettuce

- a spring cabbage

- 60g bunch radishes

- 100g mixed salad leaves

- 140g sprouting broccoli

- 250g beetroot leaves (cook like Swiss chard)

Along with three of the following items:

- 200g Swiss chard

- 180g spinach

- cauliflower

- 120g rocket leaves

- 300g beetroot

]]> http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/third-week-of-april-third-week-of-the-hungry-gap/feed/ 0 CSA Public Meeting 7th April 2012 http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/csa-public-meeting-7th-april-2012/ http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/csa-public-meeting-7th-april-2012/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:17:44 +0000 joanne http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/?p=1457 We have a great turnout for the CSA public meeting on Saturday 7th April, and the last of our Community Supported Agriculture Places for a veg box from June 2012 – May 2013 were subscribed to.

Joanne telling the story of The Oak Tree CSA

Kirsty describes life as a CSA member

New CSA members Viola and Mosaic explore the polytunnels

The chickens turn shy!

]]> http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/csa-public-meeting-7th-april-2012/feed/ 0 Second week of April, and second week of the “Hungry Gap” http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/second-week-of-april-and-second-week-of-the-hungry-gap/ http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/second-week-of-april-and-second-week-of-the-hungry-gap/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:06:13 +0000 joanne http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/?p=1454 Continue reading →]]> In the box this week, the second week of the Hungry Gap

- Spring cabbage

 - 180g sprouting broccoli

- 200g Swiss chard or a cauliflower

- Sprig of bay

- 350g beetroot

- lettuce

- 50g radishes

- 120g salad leaves

]]> http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/second-week-of-april-and-second-week-of-the-hungry-gap/feed/ 0 Is Lesley planning to tunnel to Australia? http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/is-lesley-planning-to-tunnel-to-australia/ http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/blog/2012/04/is-lesley-planning-to-tunnel-to-australia/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:16:03 +0000 joanne http://www.the-oak-tree.co.uk/?p=1449 Continue reading →]]> You can never be sure what CSA member Lesley is planning next… in fact, she isn’t planning to save on airfares and carbon emissions by tunneling to Australia. She is, in fact, starting work on The Oak Tree wood fired clay oven. This is her digging the hole for the foundations.

Now, this will be no ordinary oven as Lesley is a talented sculptor and there is talk of her sculpting our new oven into the shape of an acorn and its leaf… how fantastic!

It’ll take a few weeks to build as each layer of clay has to dry out before we can fire it up!  Watch this space, or rather hole – if you come up to the farm soon you may well be roped into helping with the construction (though remember the CSA rule that no-one has to do a job they don’t want to!)  Or if you hang on a while you may just find yourself eating pizza :)

 

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