Between planting, picking and serving all the produce from our kitchen garden, our newest team member, Richard Jack, head chef...
I don’t know what the weather is like when you are reading this but I am writing this column during...
We’ve dragged our feet this spring preparing for planting, but thanks to our new tea room chef, Richard Jack, and a few willing friends we’ve nailed the polytunnels and we’re ready to plant. So far we’ve been harvesting a some of the spring crops like broad beans and chard which...
With Vallum’s Vicky Moffitt The purple-sprouting broccoli at Vallum is insane. It’s like being in a virtual reality world down here...
My goodness – what is going on? Alicante beach was white with snow while the first shoots of 2017 were...
We have been completely frosted over here today. It was -1C when I came in on the bread shift at 4.45am and when the sun rose it felt so Christmassy! My friend and guru for all things game – Silver Sheldon, of Hadrian Game – dropped in today with...
Today I made bread. I’m in training with young Phil the baker here at Vallum Bakery, which brings with it...
Vicky celebrates the late season harvest This month has been everything we had dreamed of and more; Vallum Kitchen Garden...
It’s all rain in the Kitchen Garden It’s pouring down today – again! After the driest May on record we seem to have had more than our fair share of rain in June and the pesky slug is on the slither and after the strawberries! Mark (our grower) has been...
The cold snap hits the Kitchen Garden Can you believe the weather? Snow in May! Thank goodness Mark hadn’t planted...
It’s cold outside, but the hens are laying Hello again from Vallum in what’s been a very frosty month. Our gardener Caroline...
In the garden, with Vicky Moffitt Our usual columnist, Caroline Beck, is up to her eyes in the garden today, which means you get me standing in for her. It’s howling a gale today and the Kitchen Garden is officially sodden. We have rivers flowing through one of the poly tunnels,...
