Licence to kale
Mar 04, 2020
3 minutes
It was several decades ago that I found my first patch of sea kale. Those plants — incongruous, enormous, almost alien — presented the most extraordinary vista I have encountered in my travels through the natural world. I had been walking east along the beach beneath the red cliffs at West Bay in Dorset.
As the cliffs ended, the beginning of Chesil Beach came into view and I was confronted with what looked like hundreds of gigantic cabbages. In fact they numbered in their thousands, stretching from where I stood for most of the length of the beach, some 17
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