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...]
Hyssop
Hyssop leaves have a slightly bitter liquorice- minty flavour and can be added to all sorts of dishes including soups, salads, or meats, use sparingly, as the flavour is very strong. Hyssop flowers are delicious in a green salad. Try using a teaspoon full of chopped leaves in a Yorkshire pudding mix. Use the leaves in fruit syrup to infuse and then discard, this can then be used to add an … [Read More...]
What’s Growing Now?
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Purple sprouting broccoli was first grown as a crop by the Romans. We have been eating Broccoli in the UK for a couple of centuries, but it's only really since the nineties that the purple sprouting … [Read More...]
Winter Purslane
Winter Purslane is a late autumn salad with green fleshy leaves and a fresh clean flavour. Winter Purslane is also known as "Miner's Lettuce" because it was eaten in vast quantities during the … [Read More...]
Environmental Issues
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...]
Next job conservation…
Having reviewed all our management plans I am now on to our Whole Farm Conservation Plan....and this is no small task! Biological Action Plan (BAP), buffer zones, field maps and wildlife monitoring to name just a few, all need to be considered. All of this information combined into a single document will help to enable Philip, our Growing Director, and I to create a wildlife friendly habitat on … [Read More...]
