BAGGED AND BOTTLED!
Heading into the vegetable garden on a September morning, you can feel the approaching autumn with all of your senses. A gentle mist greets the rising sun. All around there is a busy urgency as the wild creatures prepare to leave for warmer shores, or build up their stores for the winter. The fragrance of autumn is on the air: clear, cold, crisp.
This is an incredibly busy time; I am also storing for the months ahead. It’s hard work, but there is much satisfaction in preserving, drying, bottling, curing and freezing home-grown and foraged produce. Much of the soft fruit is weighed, bagged and labelled, then frozen for jam
