Food wise almost entirely in fruit and veg with the exception of bulk carbohydrates (potatoes, rice, wheat). We produce our own chicken and take some wild meat (rabbit, duck, pigeon), a friend sorts us out with venison that we butcher. We buy in pork fro a good friend who raises rare breed pigs, but, for example, cure whole loins into bacon.
This is our meal tonight
The potatoes are Sharpe's Express, grown by me in our compost in repurposed feed sacks.
The butternut squash was picked yesterday. It's been a terrible year for pumpkins but great for butternut squash.
The peas are telegraph tall. Lovely but not the best use of space.
Thr chicken is one of our early Buff Orpington cockerels. No use for breeding as related to our hens and raised in our orchard which cannot be ploughed because of tree roots. Hatch to dispatch within 100 yards of the kitchen.
The stuffing is Sage from the herb garden, some of the bolted onions & last years dried apples plus some breadcrumbs (we didn't grow the wheat)
The sausage is from;
https://www.thedecentcompany.co.uk/
You will see them in the video. Martha makes the best sausages I've tried.
The gravy is based on our chicken stock, with our own bay, roasted onion & carrot and thickened with a little (bought) cornflour. I can't grow cranberries for sauce so I make sloe jelly (we have produced sugar, the same as we have grown wheat and ground flour, but it's not efficient as a use of time)
Within a week or two we will cook it on the Esse with fuel that we cut, split & season.
Hope that helps
