Sylvain Robert, L'Aromat's chef and his wife Virginie cater for our summer fiesta this year, the brief is to cook from our kitchen garden's production: tomatoes, courgettes, courgettes flowers, aubergines; spring onions, and a variety of herbs... the result is awesome...
Since the whole point of a kitchen garden is to have create delicious meals, here is our take on how to use it.. Our very first courgette, how exciting! So tender that it can be eaten raw, and makes a delicious salad with your choice of herb and a drizzle of olive oil...
The garden has now turned into a jungle!! The tomatoes are climbing up, the courgettes and melons spreading way out of their garden bed Strawberries keep coming out! On the lower left corner of the picture, a leave of Comfrey that I use as organic fertiliser, plants...
Because food is quite high in our priorities, especially tasty food, we are monitoring our brand new kitchen garden weekly, and although (or rather because) we only use comfrey as fertiliser, it's growing like weed: the aromatic square is pretty much filled up by...
This being the first year, we are watching the kitchen garden closely, in particular the strawberries that are literally turning red before our eyes, very exciting!! We also added quite a few lavender planters on the steps, thereby creating a mini lavender field to...
Following the happy experience with dry gardening, and thanks to the very inspiring movie "Demain" (see link here) I ended up after quite a bit of research, digesting and making mine the concepts of permaculture in order to apply them to our garden. As all this is a...
Like many people, I have been brainstorming about how to make the future better (or just less worse maybe ?) for our children. An intelligent use of the property we are lucky enough to have seemed to be one of the obvious way forward. Instinctively, the manicured...
With winter comes truffle season! Truffles grow under specific kind of oak trees and under very precise conditions of humidity and ground composition. Traditionally, the pigs would be used to find the precious mushroom. We don't have the famed pigs, but a friend took...
Very rarely do we get snow, but we cherish those pictures from the mid 2000 when the snow made everything sparkle under the sun Winter tends to be rather more like this picture. Cold, but a sunny, making the outdoor lounging spaces usable year round ... And of course,...
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