Walking Thursday: 3.9km
Walking Friday: 6.8km (on the Sentier des Falaises, St. Gildas de Rhuys)
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Something's changed this year.
Maybe it's because we've finished hectic building work, maybe the weather has been a bit kinder, perhaps our work on improving the soil is beginning to work, it could be the watering from the well. It could be because of any one or maybe all of these things but the quality and volume of produce from our land this year has exceeded all previous years. Just this week we've picked and processed the following:
Redcurrants
Blackcurrants
Peas
Broad Beans
Gooseberries
Each morning it seems there's another crop demanding our attention. At times the kitchen looks like a processing plant:
We brought back a new freezer from the UK to double our storage capacity for the winter, it's already three quarters full.
As well as freezing fruit we make a lot of jam and jellies and our own creme de cassis. We have a new
weapon in our armoury of preserving methods, an extracteur de jus.
This is a clever item which uses steam generated at the bottom to extract pasteurised fruit juice from the middle of the unit through the tube. Works well! Creme de Cassis here we come ....
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