This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.

What can I eat?

Posted 06/03/08 by Matt B in the Feeding Yourself category

One of the things that really interests me is the way in which we find food. It started to occur to me a few years ago that I knew so little about what was available as food that I did not even know what to buy at a supermarket. If it did not come in a tin I was not sure what to do with it.

Having done my time as a bachelor I, of course, knew how to combine a couple in tins in any one of a million ways to get something interesting. I even knew how to do a few things with a frying pan. At push I could come up with some interesting and healthy sandwiches.

There is and must be, I reasoned, more to food than sandwiches, tins and fried food.

I started as any good geek does and examined the things I did not recognise. Between my wife and myself we discovered that there were some dried foods that could be used to make a filling meal seemingly from nothing. Even so it has become clear that we don't know very much.

Growing things seemed the next logical step. I have always had potted plants about me - some have a history that goes back to my childhood. But when it came to planting foods I was very limited.

Living in a flat I had only window boxes to work with. That gives, basically, small plants like chives, rocket and water cress. While fresh salad for sandwiches is nice I never-the-less long for something a bit more "interesting".

This is a theme I will revisit many times during the life time of this site. Growing and finding food. I invite readers to comment, to advise, to share or to suggest as I explore the possibilities and limits.
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