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| Maidenstone |
Eating local in PeeblesFamilies in Peebles have been asked to join in a scheme whereby the only eat foods from within a 50-mile limit.See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8302411.stm I reckon we could do it here. One family say they miss crisps - you can get a microwave crisp gadget from Lakeland where you slice tatties thinly and arrange in the gadget and microwave for about 10 mins. Really great crisps and no fat! Coffee - get digging up those dandelion roots! Nettle tea? It would be best to have some notice, to stockpile veg and fruit in the freezer as that would be difficult to obtain from winter through to summer. But is there a mill in the north-east of Scotland that produces locally grown wheat flour ... don't think so? It would be interesting to do. |
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| Ina |
Re: Eating local in Peebles
Remember - for millenia people managed to survive the winter without a freezer... It is still possible, and I think we'll all have to learn to store food without the benefits of unlimited electricity again.
Looked into that when the Fife Diet was still quite new - that's a difficult one. None in the Northeast, as far as I know - there is one somewhere in Scotland, further north, I think... I was trying to find a grower of bread wheat up here, and then buy my own mill (hand mill, of course - don't want to be even more dependent on energy!). There are a few who have grown bread wheat, but I never got round to contacting them; don't think I still have their names, either. It's not a coincidence that wheat bread wasn't eaten traditionally; the stuff just doesn't grow so well here, although the advances in varieties might mean that it's not as impossible as it used to be. Ooops - just saw that you were involved in that discussion back then, anyway - so I'm not telling you anything new! 
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