Herbs Unlimited – Baby Leaf Salads and Fresh Herbs
A passion for good food and the poor availability of quality fresh herbs inspired Alison Dodd to start growing her own herbs in Yorkshire 17 years ago. Alison started her career as a Cordon Bleu chef in the family restaurant, and soon recognised the need for a good supply of fresh herbs to the catering industry. Herbs Unlimited progressed from supplying local Restaurants and Hotels to supplying … [Read More...]
Chocolate Mint
Chocolate mint is a strong mint with a hint of a chocolatey taste, it has the aroma of after dinner mints. It can be used in hot drinks like tea and hot chocolate, as well as chocolate desserts. Why not try the following: Dark chocolate mint truffles - petit four White chocolate mint ice-cream Fresh strawberry Eaton Mess with Chocolate Mint meringue … [Read More...]
What’s Growing Now?
Blackcurrant Sage
Blackcurrant sage has a strong smell of blackcurrant and the flowers are delicious and a glorious deep pink. Use with pork in a stuffing and serve with a blackcurrant coulis, garnished with the … [Read More...]
Lovage (Levisticum officinale)
Lovage is one of our home grown summer speciality herbs and is also known by some as sea parsley. The leaves and stem of the lovage plant can be used in cooking and have a fresh flavour similar to … [Read More...]
Environmental Issues
Hot Mustard Helps to Control weeds
After last month’s success of gaining our LEAF Marque accreditation, we are now onto working towards our Marks and Spencer’s Field to Fork assurance which we hope to have completed by the beginning of May. We have also chopped up and incorporated our Hot Mustard crop back into the soil this week which should start to act as a soil sterilant to hold back weeds. The idea being that it is a … [Read More...]
Preparation for This Year’s Herb Production
We have implemented what we can so far for our LEAF Marque audit, the rest we can do in spring, for example sowing our grass field margins. Then all we have to do is wait for our audit in the next month or two. Philip and I are now onto completing the Marks and Spencer’s Field to Fork assurance scheme which will be our job over the next month along with starting to get ready for this … [Read More...]
